Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. De Niro is the id unleashed, the man whose characters wear emotional scars like merit badges, who can contain nothing. The slow-witted ball-player of Bang the Drum Slowly, Travis of Taxi Driver and Jake of Raging Bull all share a public-ness of neurosis that make De Niro's roles almost painful to watch. Duvall keeps it inside, waiting to explode. He is, in a way, almost scarier, because the energy is all potential, temporarily under wraps. The consiglieri of Godfather I and II, the capitalist visionary...
...effort to regain a formal student voice in running the Social Studies concentration, several dozen concentrators met Tuesday night in a strategy and "bull session...
Instead of giving the ball to Callinan--usually the bull of the Harvard backfield--Cuccia and Restic relied heavily on halfback Jim Acheson, who Restic hoped would be able to get outside on the Holy Cross defense. Callinan carried the ball just seven times all game, and only twice in the first half...
...taking his oath of office in 1933 that in a hundred days he would remake the U.S. Government. John Kennedy, enamored of foreign affairs, suddenly had the civil rights storm breaking around his head, and instead of Nikita Khrushchev he was trying to figure out Police Chief Bull Connor and his Birmingham dogs. Maybe Richard Nixon, the old Commie fighter, could see down the road three years to the day when he would be in Peking toasting his Chinese enemies and then in Moscow talking about limiting nuclear weapons. The better bet is that what was only a wistful glimmer...
Known variously as "the Lion," "the Great Crocodile," "the Bull," "Son of the She Elephant," "the Great Mountain" and "the Inexplicable," King Sobhuza II, 82, became the leader of Swaziland the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the old Lion's rule-the longest of any living monarch-he was feted by countrymen and visiting dignitaries. Heralded as much for his libido as his longevity, Sobhuza is said to have more than 100 wives and is well on his way to earning another moniker: "Father of His Country...