Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market for men, foam-rubber breasts for women, and propeller-bearing caps (Macy's: 46?) for the young...
...white-tiled receiving room of the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital, four sturdy men put down their burden: a moaning farmer who had been gored in the belly by a Zebu bull. Down the corridor at a dogtrot came Dr. James Fanstone. He lifted the banana leaf that protected the man's wound against flies. "Get this fellow into surgery," he said. An hour later, Dr. Jim reported that the patient was doing well. What had he done about the man's innards? "Oh, I just cleaned them off and shoved them back," he said, peeling off his rubber gloves...
...grumped Trainer Jimmy Jones. "Why couldn't a fellow have these two horses in separate years?" The two wonder horses-Citation and Coaltown-were the same age (3), had the same daddy (Bull Lea) and the same owner (Calumet Farm). Apparently, each was the other's only competition: it seemed a sheer waste of horsepower to put both of them on the same race track...
Wall Street's baby bull market grew a bit more last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average moved up 1.06 points to 191.06, the highest in 19 months. By week's end the market had slipped back a bit, to 190.74. But there was no hesitation in the rest of the economy...
...thought," said Union Headquarters Aide Frank Haskell, of the third day's fighting, "that at the second Bull Run, at the Antietam, and at Fredericksburg . . . we had heard heavy cannonading; they were but holiday salutes compared with this . . . great oaks heave down their massy branches ... as if the lightning smote them ... [I saw] a man bent up, with his face to the ground in the attitude of a Pagan worshipped . . . [and] I went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned...