Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. audience. This stubborn little man, wholly British and half American, cocky, droll, grumpy, charming, cherubic, tough, with his head thrust close to his shoulders like a young bull undecided whether to be ferocious or playful, was a man Americans liked at first sight and at second...
...great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year was a German, Beethoven; the first four notes of his Fifth Symphony became the international signal of the anti-Nazi V-for-Victory campaign...
Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...flags painted on the side of merchantmen in World War II haven't been much help to U.S. shipping lately-in fact, have served as convenient bull's-eyes for Nazi subs in unrestricted warfare...
...Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief...