Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substantive character development. Other figures flit in and out of the novel without any identity of their own. They are props-roadmarker measuring the progress of Sarah's intellectual, journalistic and sexual development. Carolee, a Radcliffe student "with a delicate bone structure and the strength of a bull," exists almost exclusively to feed Sarah appropriate feminist readings and political views...
...dangling from his line. A 68-year-old Senator dons athletic shorts and runs a 60-yd. dash in a San Francisco track meet. A man who once orbited the earth turns up at a cattle show and enters a contest to guess the weight of a black Simmental bull; first prize is a dozen vials of bull semen...
Last week Glenn flew his own Beechcraft plane to Iowa, where he held a press conference at the state capitol in Des Moines, tried to weigh a bull by eye (he guessed 1,905 lbs., off by about 25 lbs.) and presented an award to Iowa's seedstock producer-of-the-year. "This is the first cattle show I've been to in months where Fritz Mondale and I have not been the main attractions," he joked. More seriously, he made the pledge against embargoes that Iowa voters love: "It's high time we stopped using food...
...bull market at Sears
...first round was about even, with Casey looking a bit cold and missing with his jabs Lopez, the shorter of the two fighters, tried to bull his way inside but landed only a few punches. "He hit me a few times, but he never really hurt me," Casey said after the fight...