Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to break up. Radio stations eagerly joined the hoopla. Ohio's WNCI-FM in Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta, callers could win yellow T shirts bearing a bull's-eye and the words I'M AN OFFICIAL WQXI-AM 79 SKYLAB TARGET...
...outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That is our greatest protection." Throughout the U.S., Skylab "survival kits," usually including plastic helmets...
DIED. Colonel Arthur ("the Bull") Simons, 60, legendary veteran of World War II and the Viet Nam War, who was once described by an admiring John Wayne as someone who plays in "real life the role I play in the movies"; of a heart attack; in Dallas. Green Beret Commander Simons won the Distinguished Service Cross in 1970 after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf...
...that his article had been misinterpreted, Powell had only one question: "What in God's name do you think you're doing?" Groused another aide: "If you talk to Fallows, he'll tell you he thinks he's done something good, decent, honorable and right. Bull!" Added a third: "Fast-buck journalism." Carter has read the article and declined public comment. As for the aides who accuse Fallows of disloyalty, they may be even more enraged by the next issue of the Atlantic. A second installment reportedly will focus on them...
...doubleheader games are only seven innings long), Dartmouth sparred Harvard starter Larry Brown for three two-out runs on four consecutive hits. "I had been going almost too smooth up to that point. I got the first two men and then I had the next guy (Dartmouth DH Mike "Bull' Durham) 3-and-2 before I got my slider up and he hit it. It was kind of a shot put and after that I lost my concentration," Brown said afterwards...