Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is taking the place of these traditional courses? Points out Latimer: "Group action subjects" which the student can often bull his way through without cracking a book. "We have gotten away from individual effort . . . By permitting the high schools to become the vocational bargain basements of education, we have insulted the student's intelligence and encouraged mediocrity by prescribing mediocre subject matter as an incentive for mediocre minds...
Almost from the beginning, critics have talked about Hemingway's obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
This feeling about style, perhaps more than anything else, has always been Hemingway's credo-whether it concerned the right way to kill a bull, track a wildebeest, serve Valpolicella or blow up a bridge. And it was usually the redeeming feature and ultimate triumph of his characters: they might die, but they died with style. They left behind them some aura of virtue, some defiant statement of this-is-the-way-it-should-be-done that amounted to a victory of sorts...
...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...
...more than 25 years, one statistic has spelled for Wall Streeters the excitement and romance of the Roaring Twenties. The figure was 381.17, the highest closing point reached by the Dow-Jones industrial average in the 1929 bull market. In all the years since, investors hardly expected the market to reach such a peak again-until this year. Last week the big bull market of 1954, which has been surging up for five straight weeks, finally crashed through the 1929 industrial high...