Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murphy is the most vocal bull in the auto industry, and he is out on a lengthening limb. While other auto chiefs forecast that Americans this year will buy about 11 million cars, slightly below last year's near record. Murphy takes all those reports on his desk, puts them through his own mental calculator, adds some instincts that come from his 40 years in the nation's most important industry, and tells one and all that the figure will approach 11,750,000. Sales were set back by the worst winter he has ever seen...
...companies know that further howling about the stupidity of this proposal can only win them a better deal. So despite the generosity of the president's plan, Carter hit the bull's eye when he predicted that "still they want more." Perhaps if he had threatened the companies with something more drastic they would have been more willing to compromise on price regulation. However, as events have developed, both the House and Senate versions of Carter's proposal are even more lenient than the original bill. Both give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, which sounds like several obscene words...
...Bull riding (an intercollegiate sport rarely found in the East) is his special event. Possibly America's craziest--if not most dangerous--sport, bull riding tests the gut-level courage of the contestants as they climb onto the back of three-quarters of a ton of enraged beefsteak and try to hang on for an eight second count. Doug has managed a couple of times to go the full count, and that's no small accomplishment...
...ticked off countries with capsule evaluations: "France ... all those mistresses and dirty postcards. Italians ... an asset to their enemies in every war they've fought. The Middle East: full of Arabs, but also full of oil." Churchill remarked, "Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him." That may be too brisk a dismissal. Though he operated in a sometimes heavyhanded "brinksman's" style, in his nearly eight years as Secretary of State, he became a tough and savvy diplomat who could match the Soviets in sheer implacability...
During his amateur days, Spinks was much ballyhooed as "the Wild Bull of Camp LeJeune," where he was stationed when he won the All-Marine Corps light heavyweight championship in 1975. Fighting on the card that night was a flyweight by the name of Ronnie DiNicola, one of Spinks's teammates on the Camp LeJeune boxing team. DiNicola won the Marine Corps championship in his own weightclass, outpointing a certain Joe Rodriguez...