Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together designs for rudimentary A-bombs. Articles have been written about the subject. The key ingredient for both the bombs and the reactors is the same: fissile material such as uranium or plutonium, whose atoms can readily split, scattering tiny, fast-moving particles called neutrons. When neutrons score bull's-eyes on the nuclei of neighboring atoms, they split them as well, unleashing still more neutrons, which in turn cause more breakups, all of which release energy...
...Among Koch's statements on race was this: "I find the black community very antiSemitic. I don't care what the American Jewish Congress or the B'nai B'rith will issue by way of polls showing that the black community is not. I think that's pure bull . . . Now, I want to be fair about it. I think whites are basically antiblack ... But the difference is: it is recognized as morally reprehensible, something you have to control...
...Browning, Mont., sits a squat, 40,000-sq.-ft. powder-blue building that houses a most unusual factory. The clattering machines that each day churn out 600,000 pens, pencils and markers are ordinary enough, but the work force is special. The warehouse manager, for example, is Donald Little Bull, and the second-shift supervisor is Le-Roy Bullshoe. The chief executive is Chief Earl Old Person, 52, head of the Blackfeet tribe and chairman of the Blackfeet Indian Writing...
...honor Billy Martin, who encourages brawls on the field and participates in them when as a leader he should be stopping them, the man who ambles through life with the finesse of a bull looking for the nearest red cape...
Unreal or not, people are now bowling to the Beatles, Frisbeeing while learning French, skiing to Shostakovich and jogging to Jagger. The thin wires of the headsets uncoil from Brooks Brothers blazers and Gucci bags, as well as from bib overalls and warmup suits. Commuters, pitchers in bull pens, shoppers hovering over the meat counter and sunbathers soaking up rays are tuning in by the millions. In Houston, prospective buyers of the Sony Walkman, the original device that touched off the craze last year, must sign up for at least a 60-day wait at major audio outlets...