Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roof sheds, and shielded by high fences. Situated on the southern horn of the main island in a spot sheltered from the sometimes blistering north wind, the site straddles a deep, dry gully. Marinates began his dig by tunneling through the pumice from the gully bed. "We hit the bull's-eye right away," he boasts. "We struck at the heart of the most aristocratic quarter." Buildings standing two and three stories high, with 50-ft. street fronts, "French doors" and traces of balconies, were found still upright, protected by the dry volcanic ash that enveloped them before...
...devil and the apocalypse which are the common denominators of her characters' psyches. These "fixes" themselves are apocalyptic, perversely so. As the "A" is burned into the flesh over Dimmesdale's heart in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mrs. May's heart in "Greenleaf" is gored by the bull that her handyman, Greenleaf, cannot keep penned...
...problem in industrial psychology has received more attention in both scholarly studies and barroom bull sessions, yet prompted less action, than the monotonous life of the assembly-line worker. Nowhere is the trouble greater than in auto plants, where repetitious, single-task jobs so bore workers that United Auto Workers Vice President Douglas Fraser often tells members that they have "half the day licked" once they have managed to get to the plant. Sweden's two biggest automakers are testing ways to make the job a bit more interesting by, in effect, disassembling portions of their lines...
...through 150, Navy was able to bull its way to victory. Josh Henson (134) scored seven points but could not control his opponent, losing 15-7, Jerry Kahrilas (142) trailed 4-3 in the third period before being pinned, and Peters (150) was shutout...
Whatever the derivation, the connotation of a race of bull-headed, simplistic primitives, inhabiting the mountainous regions of the South, obliterating their consciousness with home-brewed "white lightnin" and singing ballads when they weren't obliterating each other, has been established and, in fact, endures. The radio is probably responsible for bringing this mountain nickname into general public awareness during the '30's, and by the '50's the mass media had so fixed the image as to commercialize it, particularly in the area of musical expression...