Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underrating British strength.* In an even plainer warning the Foreign Secretary referred to stop signs on British highways: "HALT! MAJOR ROAD AHEAD!" and implied that those nations that were crossing "major roads" without "halting" might soon find themselves confronted with a husky international policeman in the person of John Bull...
Perhaps, however, "patriotism" refuses to admit this. All right, say "Wilderness and Cold Harbor-and the 1st Bull Run, and Antietam and Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg" before spirit succumbed to might-as in Spain...
...dictator, like a man with a bull by the tail, takes a chance every time he lets go. Last week Peru's Strong Man, bulky President General Oscar Raimundo Benavides, and some of his Ministers decided to leave Lima's Government Palace for a three-day holiday at Paracas Bay, 200 miles down the coast from Lima. Minister of Government and Interior General Antonio Rodríguez, left behind to keep a watchful eye on things at home, accompanied the President & party to the docks at Callao, port of Lima, and bade them Godspeed...
...parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand the Bull. . . . Both of them just love to smell flowers, but that is as far as they go." And having said his say, disgruntled "Ding" resigned...
Feild first told of the working force in the studio, the artists, musicians, composers and draftsmen who effect the creation of such characters as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Ferdinand the Bull, Snow White, and others. "More than 800 workers are in the studio," Feild explained; "all are working in productive...