Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been plenty of ills to care for since Haack took over in 1967. He had to contend first with a runaway bull market and then a severe slowdown in the securities industry. There were times, he says, when "I slept very well between 2:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m." In many of the mergers on Wall Street over the past twelve months, Haack has been the man holding the shotgun...
...reputed powerhouse. For evidence, consider the fact that after one month of the 1970 season, not a single team among the 26 in the National Football League remained undefeated. In other words, this game is no stacked deck, like the stabbing to death of a wounded bull, a pastime that has achieved the rank of high art in several Spanish-speaking nations...
...they can hold it down to that, an upset is possible. But that's what Charlie Goodell said. Besides, after getting bombed by Dartmouth, Yale must be feeling a bit more humble, and humility can win ball games. Jimmie the Greek says 13 points, but I must disagree. The Bull-dogs...
...Brave Bull. Domingo, who was born in Madrid in 1941, once hoped to become a matador when he grew up. By the time he fought his first bull, though, he was 14 and living with his parents in Mexico City. It was in a small ring where young bulls were tested for bravery. The one selected for Placido was very brave-braver, in fact, than Placido, who was badly battered; then and there he gave up the corrida for a career in music...
Young helped lead the marches and took his share of arrests and beatings. He was in charge of the demonstration the day in 1963 that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...