Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning. That would be Thursday. I had left a call for 6:15. I wanted to swim. At 6:15 one of my guys comes in and says, "Well, you won't believe this, but Jack Anderson says, eleven times arrested, six times for drunken driving." I said, "Bull shit, it's a goddam...
When Burroughs Corp. President Ray Macdonald recently spied a Dali lithograph of a bullfight hanging on an office wall, he jokingly ordered a secretary to paste the letters IBM over the head of the vanquished bull. For the normally straitlaced Macdonald, this was an unusual act. He may not be entitled to the matador's highest accolade, the ears, but he is fighting an impressive battle. Macdonald took charge of the Detroit computer maker half a dozen years ago, when it ranked a distant eighth to IBM. Today Burroughs is up to the No. 4 position in terms...
...Ireland her own. It might be called County Farce. It lies just this side of the Dire Straits, along the border of Blarney. It is peopled with grotesques, inanimate as well as animate: crumbling mansions where the plumbing has a will-but not a constitution -of iron; a Hereford bull that for reasons of its own sits down in a kitchen, blockading the stove; an alcoholic postman who carelessly stuffs mail into a tree stump, then thinks to bring the practice into line with regulations by carving the words post box in the bark...
...Banner is Peckinpah's most contemporary western, set in Prescott, Ariz., a town that hews to the traditions of the past by holding a rodeo every year even as its outskirts are being bulldozed for a housing development. Ace (Robert Preston) used to be a champ, a great bull rider who once performed in Madison Square Garden and talked to Jack Dempsey as one champion to another. Now he devotes most of his time to hustling up a stake...
...other son Junior (Steve McQueen) is a rodeo rider with a single obsession: to ride an especially violent bull, a feat that will spell his father's long shadow. Incredibly, Junior triumphs, buys Ace a one-way ticket to Australia and then blows town, letting his father look for a new frontier while Brother Curly plows the old one under...