Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political discussion here seems to center around to extremes: raucous bull-sessions at one end, and academic lectures at the other. Generally unheard are the sounds of students arguing with students in large, organized meetings. Yale has its Political Union, and Princeton its Senate, but Harvard has only the memory of an ill-fated Athenaeum...
...heard her in person. This season, the San Francisco Opera gave her a chance to show off not only her brilliant singing but also her remarkable acting. Her roles: the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Her score: bull's-eyes in both roles...
...swift rise of the 1955 bull market was based on one big premise: President Eisenhower would be elected for a second term in 1956 and the U.S. economic boom would continue, unhindered by any political changes. As the news of Ike's heart attack shattered that confidence, the stock market suffered its worst fall in 26 years. For Wall Streeters the weekend announcement could not have come at a worse time, for the first impulse of thousands upon thousands of small stockholders was to sell. As the selling orders poured in by wire on Sunday to brokerage houses...
...arena-like floor of the New York Stock Exchange was in turmoil; 2,000 brokers, clerks and messengers milled around the 18 trading posts. Many stocks that were not widely traded opened on schedule. But for many of the popular blue-chip stocks, which have led the bull market rise, an opening was impossible. About each post gathered knots of worried men anxiously awaiting buyers for the thousands of shares of stock they had orders to sell. At the center of the hubbub were the specialists who handle the stocks-some dealing in as many as 25 issues, while others...
...honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids and tormented by mosquitoes, cloudbursts and rattlesnakes. Still in present-day Montana, they portaged around the Great Falls, studied animals that were strange to them: prairie dogs, antelope, bighorn sheep. Then they passed the Gates...