Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novelist consulted and which he includes as notes at the back of the book. Two of the most haunting scenes in the novel have analogues in this source material. One, recorded by Harvard anthropologist Evon Vogt, is a myth from a town near Chamula, which explains how a bull was present when the Christ Child was born and with its breath and body heat kept the child from dying from the cold. Wilson adapts this myth for the tale of his own hero's nativity. The newborn Pedro is lying in his mother's arms, when his father's bull...
...initiated by the women of Mobile, Ala., in 1865, and picked up by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Union in Washington, D.C., a year later. In cities large and small, the American Legion marched, trumpets blared tunes of glory as the citizenry paid homage to the dead of Bull Run, Belleau Wood, Bastogne...
...area, North Vietnamese units once again attacked South Vietnamese positions across the My Chanh River on both sides of Highway 1. One morning before dawn, their tanks quickly encircled the South Vietnamese Third Marine Battalion, running around their positions, as one U.S. adviser put it, "like Sitting Bull at Little Big Horn." The South Vietnamese cheered and yelled when U.S. Army
...target, while the other drops its bombs in the general direction of the object. Responding to infra-red sensors mounted in their noses, the bombs ride the beam's reflections in a long glide pattern to the target. Sometimes they strike within a 5-ft. radius of the bull...
...Honker" is rodeo slang that freely translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...