Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain's dashing ex-Matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, 29, whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled...
...handsome, greying General Bambang Sugeng, has had no military training. Many of the army's seven territorial commanders operate, in fact, as private warlords, some in almost outright rebellion. The worst of the army's difficulties, however, can be traced directly to Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, a bull-necked Marxist of 55, who professes not to be a Communist, though as a young man he went to meetings in Moscow, and in 1946 was jailed for his role in the Communist Tan Malaka uprising. Iwa has been weeding out anti-Communist officers, and he carefully limits supplies...
...economic year of 1954 the world had a clear and easily understandable measure of the soaring strength of the U.S. That measure was the great bull market in stocks. Stock prices rose higher than in 1929, and on the last day of the year the Dow-Jones industrial average hit an alltime high of 404.39. But what gave the bull market historic significance was that it symbolized the strongest possible confidence in the capitalistic system, a confidence that had often seemed lacking, even among U.S. capitalists themselves, in previous years of the boom. The remarkable fact about this surging confidence...
...bull stood for something more than Americans' faith in their economy. As the U.S. entered a new era of competitive coexistence with the Communist world, the bull was a symbol that Americans were sure they could compete...
...fact was that the 1954 bull was a different breed from any other that had gone before. From almost every angle he seemed made of muscle. He stood against the background of an entirely new economy made up of many industries that did not even exist in 1929, and with a gross national product more than three times as big. Corporate profits, helped by the death of the excess-profits tax, totaled $17 billion in 1954, down 6% from 1953, but 100% above the 1929 level. On top of that, Americans in 1954 proved they knew how their giant economy...