Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Left Field--29 HR's/121RBI's/.306 average for Foster, and 20/95/.304 for "Bull" Luzinski. On the basis of his glove, a vote for Foster. Both are great, though...
...there are major and obvious differences as well. Ford is affable and gregarious and enjoys nothing more than a bull session in the White House with old friends. Carter, although a good one-on-one campaigner who likes to meet people in public, has a deep sense of privacy and relaxes by taking solitary walks in the Georgia woods. Both are highly intelligent. But Carter is a quick study, introspective and contemplative; Ford assimilates information more slowly, but has an impressive grasp of complex and diverse subjects. Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton, believes that Carter is sometimes...
BIRMINGHAM! THE FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH' ... The mangled bodies of little girls in a bombed-out church. Martin Luther King Jr. and Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor-the irresistible black force meeting the immovable white object-confronting each other amid the flames...
...postbellum parvenu, forged on steelmaking and railroads rather than magnolias and gentility, Birmingham dug in against the black demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. Bull Connor, who really ran the city as public safety commissioner, personified entrenched white supremacy. In Birmingham's embattled spring of 1963, Connor coldly ordered his police and firemen to cut off black marches on downtown with fire hoses, police dogs and clubs. A series of bombings culminated one September morning in a blast that ripped open a black church, killing four small girls in Sunday-school class learning "the love that forgives...
...Bull Connor has since died -and so has Birmingham's bitterness. It is significant in the contemporary South that Alabama's largest city (pop. 295,686) has become a model of Southern race relations. Legally, everything is integrated; blacks, who make up 40% of the population, work and shop and dine freely downtown. The only trace of the old "colored" fountains is scars on the walls where they were removed. No serious racial incident has occurred since the First Baptist Church voted six years ago not to admit two blacks as members. Even then, the pastor and many...