Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger demurred. "Your honor," he said, "I'm not a bull." So did Roger's attorney, Genevieve Aiche, 27, a pretty redhead. "Permit me to be skeptical," she said. "Eighteen assaults in one hour, even perpetrated by two men in relay, seem to me to be pure myth. It would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous, and they were Kings of France. After all, where is the woman who, after 18 assaults, would have the effrontery to complain...
...birthday cake into the courtroom for Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis yipped: "Hey, Bobby, they've arrested your cake." Yippie Hoffman, brutally playing on the judge's sensitivities as a fellow Jew, cried: "You are synonymous with Adolf Hitler." Dellinger peered at a testifying prosecution witness and said "Bull-"-provoking a scuffle in which two spectators were arrested. No matter how dubious the law under which they were tried, no matter how antagonistic the judge, the defendants were striking at the U.S. legal system, which can work only under at least a minimal observance of civilized rules. "People keep...
...future in arguing about degrees of oppression. A lot of "movement" types come on with a line of shit about homosexuals not being oppressed as much as blacks or Vietnamese or workers or women. We don't happen to fit into their ideas of class or caste. Bull! When people feel oppressed. they act on that feeling. We feel oppressed. Talk about the priority of black liberation or ending imperialism over and above gay lib is just anti-gay propaganda...
...frantic hawker stands in front of each shop, jerking passersby inside with either a friendly tug or a non-stop, 78 r. p. m. sales-pitch. The walls, laden with shining guitars, pinata dolls, and obscenely fluorescent paintings of nudes and bull-fights, flash down aggressively at the customer. Mexicans sit behind the counters, talking and laughing, while middle-aged, paunchy Americans solemnly try on yard-wide sombreroes in front of the mirrors...
...recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating her but deposing her, enjoining upon Catholics the duty of opposing her by every means...