Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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preaching to his bull, and much...
...sedan wheeled through the imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo House of Detention. There...
...wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling his r's in words like 'warble' and 'warp.' Since Jaques not only is a malcontent but also enjoys parading his melancholia, he carries a little notebook and pencil in which to jot down cynical quips for future use. Another bull's-eye for Kerr...
Story's attack on Chariots of the Gods?, etc., is a series of bull's-eyes scored at 3 ft. Von Däniken's notions make use of ancient artifacts that he feels are proof of an extraterrestrial influence in history: the massive Easter Island statues, for instance, and the mysterious lines extending for miles on the Peruvian coastal plain at Nazca that he argues were landing strips for celestial spaceships. Story easily demonstrates that Von Däniken's use of details and overstretched imaginings are on a par with those of children seeing...
Based on an autobiographical book by Clarence Day Jr., the play chronicles the domestic mishaps of one Victorian family with a light humor. Clarence Sr. is a bull-headed Wall Street man who presides over his well-trained household with an almost military authority. His insensitive tirades send everyone from his wife to a motley procession of household servants into teary blubbering. His penny-conscious "thrift" two sons into the less-than-respectable patent medicine business. Too proud to even kneel in church, he taxes the patience of the most accommodating clergyman...