Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last-week, at a mere 59 (Rudolph Matas is still alive at 95 and working on medical histories), Alton Ochsner gave up the reins as head of Tulane's department of surgery, though he will continue as a professor and can still be the bull in the bullpen. So far, no surgeon has been named. In a reminiscent mood, Ochsner recalled some of the Latin American dictators (including Argentina's fallen idol Juan Perón) on whom he has operated or for whom he has served as consultant...
...same bull-throated voice, Al Ochsner demanded of the class: "Why did he pop out?" At which point several other students would have been glad of a merciful faint...
...Ochsner, normally well-modulated in tone, was promptly dubbed "the bull of the bullpen." He recalls now: "My purpose was to teach students how to think under stress. They must learn to think quickly and correctly, and to back up every decision they make. Later, in practice, they will often have a waiting room full of patients when a man comes in whom they have never seen before...
...Since the death of her husband, a small-time smuggler, she has turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about his body ("like a young bull"). "I was the peasant," she cries, "but I gave my hosband glory." One day reality in the improbable form of Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), "a bachelor wit' three dependents," breaks into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed...
...snow and Ice . . . Perhaps if your back side gets wet in Ice water you will be more careful how you decide again. The majority of the People said, Stick him to it, Emma, it is but Just. But the Bishop made an Excuse to go ... & got out of it." Bull & Scapegoat. In the last years of his life, Lee needed Emma's sort of staunchness. Although these diaries do not contain his account of it, Lee had taken part in the brutal Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly...