Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hair began to grey and his patience with students to thin, but most of the time there were few signs of stress. He made for himself a host of enemies, not the least of whom was the Crimson, which for years ran a picture of him holding a bull-horn and standing outside University Hall. Many students were more direct in their attacks. I remember vivid, scary accounts of harrassments and building occupation...
Today Meany is fighting President Ford's economic program with the same bull-like intransigence that carried him to the peak of the labor movement. He has written every member of the House and Senate to plug the counterproposals of the AFL-CIO. The federation's six lobbyists in Washington are putting special pressure on Oregon's Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is writing the key legislation. Every Monday, lobbyists from 30 or so of the federation's affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught...
Before Saturday's meet with Cornell, Harvard swimming coach Ray Essick gave each team member a tee shirt with a red target printed on it. The bull's eye was an H for Harvard. As coach Essick explained, "It seems as if everyone is aiming for us this year...
...bull market in the making? A. Gary Shilling, chief economist of White, Weld & Co., notes that "historically, whenever we've had a major recession- like in 1921, 1937 and 1958 -we've never had a genuine new bull market until all the bad news is out of the way." Last week's big spenders were ignoring several signs that that has not happened yet. The Labor Department reported that industrial productivity declined by 2.7% last year; that is the first decline in manufacturing output per man-hour since the department began keeping such records in 1947. Corporate...
...history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger. Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape. On the near side, Herblock 's State of the Union (Viking/Compass) presents the dean of contemporary cartoonists, Herbert Block, drawing-and quartering-his favorite quarry: Government waste, pomposity, fat-cat lobbyists, and last...