Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tender, graceful fable about a Ute boy who comes finally to a hard-won maturity. As a child, Tom Black Bull lived in the Colorado mountains with his parents. When they died, he went to school on the Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
...contain Huerta, the Crimson defense may mark the former Junior college All-American man-to-man. "It all depends over what they do," Scott remarked, Harvard will need more line support defensively as well, as Cornell lines to bring the bull straight to the center of the field from defense...
...Fibonacci sequence goes 0, 1, 1. 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. with each number from the third on derived by adding the two previous numbers. Some market watchers insist that stock-price cycles follow Fibonacci numbers, and are composed, say, of five bull and three bear movements, with each movement subdivided into eight, 1 3 or 2 1 minor swings. The Jehovah's Witnesses sign within the past year has flashed "Paradise Soon" just before a nice market rally, and "Dead Will Rise" immediately before prices of some long-depressed stocks began going back...
...vast majority of sports fans in this country, soccer is a foreign game, played by men running around kicking a funny spotted bail, and leaping into the air to spear the bull with their heads. To most of the world succer is the game, a fast-moving, exciting sport that combines a great deal of the physical contact of football with the skill and finesse of hockey. Slowly, however, the game is catching on in America...
...Weimar. In a statement so oversimplified that it is blatantly false, he writes that Kissinger sees Nguven Van Thieu as a convenient ally not because he is reasonable but merely because he is compliant." Without supporting his view, he refutes Kissingers "linkage" theory with the equivalent of a Papal Bull. And it is even less reasonable to suppose that America's steadfastness in Southeast Asia measurably affects Washington's credibility in the European theater with the Soviet Union, or even with the West European allies from Europes vantage point the war is an exercise not in credibility but in irrational...