Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalled, he hawked the Sun in the streets for a penny, and "Now, it's full of bull, and it costs five cents." At crowded Workingmen's Hall in his native East Baltimore, D'Alesandro cockily proclaimed: "Editorials don't win elections, but paved streets win elections. Are your streets paved? Is your garbage being collected?" Roared the crowd: "Yea, Tommy!" Last week on election day, street-paving overcame the press: by 25,000 votes. Tommy D'Alesandro and his garbage collectors eclipsed Sam Hopkins...
...envoy to El Salvador, the youngest ambassador in U.S. history (36 when he was appointed). Though Biddies still proliferate in Philadelphia's social register, Cordelia has switched from the Main Line to Manhattan. The result is that My Philadelphia Father, "as told to" Kyle Crichton,* reads like ripsnorting, Bull Moosish commotion recollected in the comparative tranquillity of a Park Avenue penthouse party...
...eating, working around the house or driving (26% of the in 111 million radios in the U.S. are in automobiles). Aiming at such listeners with scattershot advertising (many spot announcements instead of big shows) and the inexpensive formula of recorded music, news and sports, local stations have hit the bull's-eye. They grabbed an audience from the networks, then sold time cheaply in large quantities to new as well as old radio advertisers, who recognized that local stations might not be so good for institutional advertising but were fine for selling specific products...
FRENCH ECONOMIC GAINS are pushing the Paris stock market ahead at an even faster clip than the U.S. bull market, largely because Frenchmen who once sent their funds abroad are now investing at home. Stocks on the Paris Bourse are 240% above the 1949 average, with a $2.3 billion gain since 1952; the averages climbed by 60% last year alone, have soared another 22% in 1955's first four months...
...point, his purpose accomplished, Louis Wolfson rose, oozing charity, and asked an end to the bull-baiting. "It seems that Mr. Avery is not in a position today to conduct this meeting," he said. "I will appreciate it if you will accept Mr. Barr as chairman." Then, in an aside, Wolfson told reporters: "This is the greatest corporate fraud ever perpetrated...