Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young Assistant Solicitor Daniel Duke brandished two heavy, cleated leather lashes, crying out: "A man could kill a bull elephant with one of these," the Governor interrupted and took over the defense himself. Of the floggers he said, "Some of them thought they were doing the right thing. I have seen some pretty good people get misguided and cut the fool." At the conclusion of the hearing he remarked, "These men have been away from their families long enough...
Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
...successor to Fran Lee will be one of three backs, Don McNicol, Gordy Lyle and Dave Goldthwait or one of five linesmen, Don Forte, Jack Morgan, Bull Barnes, Russ Stannard and Johnny Page...
...notice some folks don't like to "give the devil his due." Had California been taken from us 20 years ago, we most certainly would get it back and we wouldn't go to Munich and ask John Bull's permission either. And if he threw out his mighty chest in defiance because he thought he ruled the earth as well as the seas, we'd likewise teach him to mind his own business, wouldn't we ? I can't appreciate a big bully who, after getting his ears pinned back for butting...
...Bull Barnes replaced Loren MacKinney, Ayres replaced Johnny Page, Summers alternated with Wilson at tailback, and Jim Grunig swapped with Dick Pfister...