Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physiologist Delgado has developed even more dramatic methods of aggression control in animals. In one famous experiment, he implanted electrodes in the brain of a bull bred for fierceness. Then, with only a small radio transmitter as protection, he entered the ring with the bull and stopped the angry animal in mid-charge by sending signals into what he believes was its violence-inhibiting center. Similarly, Neuroanatomist Carmine Clemente of U.C.L.A. has shocked cats into dropping rats they were about to kill. But neither man sees any early prospects for remote control of human aggression...
...surgery reduced his body to "a ruin," according to his doctor. Yet until the end, which was attributed to arteriosclerotic heart disease, every one of his maladies seemed somewhat curable, save for his hypochondria. The remarkable features that had been caricatured by such friends as Cocteau and Picasso -bull-fiddle nose, guitar-like ears, pince-nez, natty mustache-remained mobile and alert. Stravinsky carried on with the conversational crowds he loved so well, often speaking to one guest in French, another in English, or in Russian to his wife Vera, a former costume designer for Diaghilev. And always there...
...first game. Yale sta??ter Jay Bryan struck out five of the first nine batters he faced and held the Crimson to three scratch singles. But the Bull-dogs only got two hits and a single unearned run off Crimson starter Phil Collins...
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...family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance to watch how he does...