Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Covering this story," says Stacks, "was a little like covering a bullfight from inside the matador's camp. The matador was talking, carefully, and the bull was unavailable for interviews. The result reveals the incredible number of Nixons that exist inside the former President. The shows are a kind of video psychobiography...
...audience he expected little applause?and he was not disappointed. He was interrupted, however, when he took a poke at the oil companies, declaring: "I happen to believe in competition, and we don't have enough of it right now." He held out the threat of divestiture?a bull-baiting word among the big oil companies?if data he sought from the companies showed that antitrust laws were being flouted...
...click click click click click click flash fondling my camera and with each movement wrapping it tighter around her body. I was coiled, firing away at the red-centered bull's eye. Elizabeth Taylor had come to town, not our town, nor Thornton Wilder's, but Harvard Square, home of the ivy laurels and the very...
...their French Canadian goalie Gilles Gratton hit on a terror tactic of his own. He bought a $300 fiber-glass mask that looks like a snarling lion with flashing fangs. "Im a Leo," Gratton explained. "This mask becomes me." Mixing his menagerie metaphors, Gratton added, "That's no bull. I really feel stronger." Gratton's famous teammate Phil Esposito thinks the bright mask "is terrific. It makes Gratton happier, so he plays better." Indeed, the Rangers won a victory the very first time the goalie wore teeth. But Emile Francis, coach of the losing St. Louis Blues, declined...
...across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...