Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other outstanding name in the Michigan line is Julie Franks, Negro guard, whose bull-like rushes into enemy backfields have raised him high among the nation's best linemen. Saturday will probably see a duel of 60-minute line players, for Harlow has the same lack of depth between the ends that has plagued Crisler and accounted for the Wolverine loss to Iowa Pre-Flight...
...Volume I amply demonstrates that the year of Bull Run was as nerve-racking for the South as for the North. Its greater value for U.S. readers and soldiers lies in its lucid recreation of the conditions of battle, the political and tactical situations as they were glimpsed, guessed, judged and dealt with by responsible men on horseback...
When Beauregard posted his army along the creek called Bull Run on July 20, 1861, he had Napoleonic strokes in mind but not much sense of the terrain. General Joseph E. Johnston, his superior, just arrived from Richmond, had to assume Beauregard's knowledge of the country since he had none himself. Beauregard worked until 4:30 a.m. on an order for attack which Freeman calls "a gloomy instance of the manner in which . . . the ignorance of a commanding officer may be as gross as that of the men and infinitely more expensive in blood and misery...
Beauregard's order did not reach some brigades, reached others only to paralyze them. Not waiting for the Napoleonic stroke, Federal troops crossed Bull Run by the easiest route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard but to the common sense of some of his brigade commanders, who heard heavy firing and decided to take their men toward it. "What seemed in retrospect a marvel of distant control by Beauregard was, in reality, the work of Colonel [Philip St. George] Cocke"-one of the richest planters...
...William Ayers is not bull-necked for nothing. Says he, keeping out of earshot of Editor Bradley: "I'm going to have that all-girl copy desk yet-the swellest hennery in town. Maybe my approach wasn't right...