Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frowns on those familiar television faces? In Howard K. Smith's case, it's because the venerable newscaster is piqued that ABC News under Roone Arledge seems less and less interested in the learned commentary that Smith delivers. As a result, he tacked a bull to the newsroom bulletin board announcing an abrupt resignation from "a job without a real function...
...they get acquainted, their chatter is national TV talk-show modern ("With those freeways in L.A., man, nobody says how far anything is in miles, it's just hours, you know"). The sophistication of kids from towns as small as Grey bull, Wyo., is passing wondrous, but it is disconcerting too; one wants something more than Johnny Carson from the leaders of tomorrow...
Sure, there's Bowa, the Bull, Schmidty, Maddox, Bake, Boon, and newcomer Trillo, but a lack of depth and a rotation that is bordering on collapse will hurt the defending division champs. And, anyway, when hasn't a Philadelphia team fizzled in the clutch...
...largest and most powerful tribe to emerge with this new lifestyle, the Sioux certainly have become the most well-known. They and the Cheyenne rode down Custer; Sitting Bull and his entourage performed in Wild Bill Hickcock's Wild West Show and West Point cadets studied Crazy Horse's tactics. It is not surprising, then, that what is being hailed as the new American Indians Roots is a novel about the Sioux...
Perot, who once tried to deliver Christmas presents and dinners to American P.O.W.s in North Viet Nam, says that he took matters into his own hands. As Perot tells the story, former Green Beret Colonel Arthur ("Bull") Simons, leader of the daring but unsuccessful raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam in 1970, agreed to lead a band of 14 volunteer commandos in an assault on the prison. After deciding that the unit was too small for the job, claims Perot, he arranged for a mob to do the job. There was indeed a prison break...