Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more money he made in the 1920s bull market, the more Wall Street Analyst William Griffith Wilson hit the bottle. "Men of genius," he assured his worried wife, "conceive their best projects when drunk." He was right, though hardly in the sense he meant. When Wilson died last week at 75, he left one of the finest projects that a drunk has ever conceived. He was the famous "Bill W.," who sobered up and in 1935 co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous...
...this accumulation one sees the Indians' dwindling hopes, illuminated by flashes of courage and desperate efforts to res;st slow annihilation. There were the brilliantly waged wars of chiefs Red Cloud. Little Crow. Crazy Horse and Gall, as well as stoic efforts to save their people by Sitting Bull and Black Kettle...
English Actor-Author Peter Bull, whose Teddy Bear Book has had considerable coterie success in Britain, was delighted to get an invitation to tea with Washington's grandest grande dame, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, after whose father, President Teddy Roosevelt, the cuddly stuffed animals were named. Would she mind, he asked, if he brought along a couple of the bears? She would indeed, Bull was informed. "I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear." Then she dashed any hopes Author Bull may have...
ENDS. Bill Atessis, Texas, 6 ft. 3 in., 252 lbs.; and Jack Youngblood, Florida, 6 ft. 5 in., 246 lbs. Atessis is the charging bull in the Longhorns' defense, a kind of one-man stampede. Texas Coach Darrell Royal calls him a "superplayer, who hasn't played a bad game in three years." As another coach puts it with telling simplicity: "He just gets out there and stirs folks around." Florida's Youngblood creates a different kind of havoc. Deceptively fast for his size, he reads screens and swing passes so adroitly that he intimidates quarterbacks...
...masochistically gloried in that character's representation! Even Johnson's superb defensive fighting style (displayed recently in two documentaries, The Legendary Champions and Jack Johnson ) is altered; though Jones' Jefferson looks as greased and bouncy as Gypsy Joe Harris in the pitifully few boxing scenes, he charges like a bull, and lacks Johnson's throw-away finesse...