Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week was finally stirred by the growing seriousness of the manpower muddle (TIME, Oct.5), but while others vacillated a man from Minnesota spoke out. Startled by the acute shortage of farm labor in his own State, Governor Harold Edward Stassen took the bull by the horns. He ordained an emergency manpower program for Minnesota...
...Northwest lumber yards now have 4,000 women whistle punks, tallymen, flunkies, bull cooks...
When she resigned as agricultural editor in 1937 to write only when it suited her, Free Press editors relaxed. She had terrorized them for years, berating them for crimes like putting a one-column head on a bull-show story and burying it back among the gall-bladder ads. They relaxed too soon. Cora kept right on berating them until she died...
What is most encouraging, in what it bodes for the future, is the fact that Hollywood has not stopped to the more obvious methods of waving the flag. "Eagle Squadron" an otherwise excellent picture, was made sloppy and in many spots embarrassing by the long sequences lauding the British bull-dog spirit and overdoing the jolly-well, pip-pip, chins-up attitude of the average Briton. This has not been done in "Desperate Journey," but rather the director has let the actions of the characters speak for themselves in conveying the same idea. Needless to say, the latter method...
...eighth, Slaughter slammed a line drive into right field, beat the throw-in to second base, streaked to third as Shortstop Rizzuto bobbled the ball. On Musial's single, he scored what turned out to be the winning run. Then, in the ninth, his bull's-eye throw from right field to third base saved the game for the Cardinals...