Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the reactor. Immersed in the liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick "pot" to block everything but neutrinos. As the particles barreled through the heavy water, some scored bull's-eye hits on the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms, which contain an extra neutron. These collisions produced other particles, including more neutrons that struck the helium-filled tubes and registered on the oscilloscope...
Still, Anderson's candidacy has more potential for disrupting the established order of politics than any event since 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt bolted the Republicans and ran as a Bull Moose. For good reason, leaders of both parties genuinely fear Anderson. He is running in what he has called a "crazy" year, one in which the Democrats and Republicans seem about to nominate candidates so unpopular that more than half the potential voters have been telling pollsters they wish there were another choice. In his announcement press conference, Anderson neatly capsulized their dilemma by calling Jimmy Carter a President...
...another anecdote about how Parker came to be called Yardbird. Ricker's 24 hours of rough footage doubtless contained many more interesting stories, but as a movie, not an oral history project, the film's wonderful sense of pace easily offsets an occasional choppiness in cutting from one bull session to another...
When Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Houston last year, Rancher John Joyce gave him a Texas-size souvenir: a 1,000-lb. champion brahma bull worth $10,000. Joyce also handed Deng a letter offering to sell more bulls, if China was shopping...
Since then Joyce has called the Texas and U.S. Departments of Agriculture and written to the Chinese consulate in Houston for instructions about what to do with the bull, but has received no replies. Last week an official of the Chinese embassy in Washington said that the "matter is still under consideration" and that he is still waiting for orders from Peking. Meanwhile, Joyce said, he is "tired of feeding the bull," which since Deng's visit has gained 400 lbs. on a $2.50-a-day diet of corn, cottonseed hulls, molasses, oats and a protein supplement...