Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young men booed and heckled him. But everywhere the crowds were big-to the pros, unexpectedly big. Day after day the big round-shouldered amateur learned: how to roll with a punch, how to throw a hook. Most important, he never quit. Grudgingly, the newshawks came to respect his bull-like persistence, his obstinate honesty, the deep strength of his convictions, which he could not lay aside each evening as practiced politicians do. "This guy means it," one correspondent wired...
Before the funeral train had returned to Washington, the House leadership had been discussed and settled. Next man to hold the majority leadership of the House would ordinarily have been bull-built, conservative Representative Lindsay Warren of Washington, N. C. But only seven weeks before, Lindsay Warren had reluctantly, with many a backward glance, relinquished his lifetime ambition to become Speaker, had accepted from Franklin Roosevelt a 15-year commission as Comptroller General...
Before the Civil War, when most citizens still doubted that there would be a war, U. S. Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received...
...shape, a pulley weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history of his record in office to present to the court...
...read the whole thing through at a stretch, you get the impression toward the end of "having heard this before." Nevertheless, individually and collectively, the articles are forthright, readable, and well-informed. Moreover they are devoid of the bull-headedness which unsympathetic persons have been went to associate with the words "Student Union...