Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...
...glare of klieg lights and television cameras, stocky, bull-necked Zhukov gave a rousing, atom-waving oration in stock Communist prose, threatening the world (and especially the U.S.) with the might of the Red army. Lined up with Zhukov were Marshals Alexander Vasilevsky and Vasily Sokolovsky, present army chief of staff, while Stalin's old buddy, white-whiskered Marshal Budenny, was on hand to give a cavalry dash to the gathering. Among the diamond-studded, gold-starred military uniforms, Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was a small, undistinguished figure in civilian clothes, but to remind the audience where the power...
...investors regarded the cement industry as profitable-until recently. But in last week's bull market, cement stocks were holding their own with aircraft and oil. Riding the construction boom, they have doubled in price in the last year, while extra dividends and stock splits have become common. In the last month alone, North American Cement Corp. split its stock 4 for 3 and General Portland Cement split...
Brooklyn's example (at right) is mysterious from head to toes. The helmet is adorned not with the familiar bull's horns of Mesopotamian moon gods, but with those of an ibex. The broad-cheeked face is Caucasian; the inlaid eyes date back to Sumeria. The staff in the hand is a later addition; no one knows whether the figure actually carried a staff, an offering, or a weapon. The pack on the back resembles the wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient...
...quit the next year, took a vice-presidency of T.W.A., and then the presidency of TACA Airways. He joined ex-Congressman Joe Casey, T.W.A.'s general counsel, in a scheme to buy surplus Government tankers, brought in ex-Boss Stettinius, who, in turn, brought in Fleet Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey. The tanker deals made over $3,000,000 on a $100,000 investment, and before long became the subject of a congressional investigation (TIME, March...