Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of trials of former Bolsheviks charged with treason, terrorism and various crimes against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave such people alive...
After the game, one of the first men in the dressing room was Fleet Admiral (ret.) William F. ("Bull") Halsey. No naval battle had ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...
...with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared to compete, by staging a revival of Umberto Giordano's opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier, a work...
...shares were traded, New York Central accounted for 4% of the activity, closed the week at 24, up 3½. By week's end the Dow-Jones rail average had tacked on six points (127.65), and the industrials were up a fat eleven points, to a new bull-market high...
Since few pension investors are interested in quick, speculative gains, the effect of this buying has been to bull up as well as stabilize the stock market. Most funds invest on the "dollar averaging" principle, i.e., assign a specific amount of money each year to buying a certain stock. If the stock rises, the fund can buy fewer shares; if the stock falls, it can buy more, thus tending to stabilize the market...