Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When some of Richard Nixon's Wall Street supporters recently presented him with a two-foot-high stuffed bull, the President reiterated that "I think next year is going to be a very good year." Then, with the election well in mind, he added: "It better be." One happy sign is already clear this year: the Administration is at last making progress against inflation. For the year's first quarter, the consumer price index advanced at an annual rate of only 2.7%, which was less than half the pace that it maintained last year, and the lowest rate...
...writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when a Pentagon colonel promises the town a share in the defense budget: a large bull is shown in the foreground...
...dering whether ailing President for Life Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier would make his scheduled 64th birthday appearance on the palace balcony and prove to one and all that he was indeed alive and well. Last week the moment came: Papa Doc did not show. In his stead stood his bull-necked son, Jean-Claude, 19, whom the dictator named as his successor earlier this year. Many of the 50,000 assembled Haitians, who were kept 70 yards from the palace, did not seem to realize that fact. As Jean-Claude saluted again and again, the crowds clapped and cheered: "Vive...
...Nation of Breast Worshipers?". Sexual Behavior seems almost ashamed of its subject. Most of the articles are by M.D.s and Ph.D.s and so mustily mid-Victorian in style and tone that educated adults will not discover much they did not find out about in schoolyard bull sessions as kids...
...paintings have served as such imaginative inspiration to other artists; it is known that Rubens and Sir Joshua Reynolds had copies from the original in Venice; this painting also influenced Van Dyck and Rembrandt, as well as the Spanish school (e. g. Velazquez). The picture is of a white bull carrying away the swirlingscafed Europa on his back; blue vs. red is the dominant color scheme typical of Titian's early works...