Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character, at least, Schuman was fitted for his task. He had few friends. He was so shy that he blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
...believe that communist expansion would halt on the far side of Czechoslovakia. Today those heads are wagging wisely up and down in a chorus of I-told-you-sos. Similarly, the skeptics have long been doubting the ability of the United Nations to become more than an international bull session that discusses, investigates, and concludes, but never acts. They have suspected that the United States' commercial interests would undermine its interests in justice and in the United Nations, and today these skeptics can point to Flushing Meadows and say that they have been proven right...
...attach himself, and, since there is little or no opportunity to meet his intellectual colleagues in the lecture hall or even in the section, he turns to some formal or informal social group whose only common denominator is an interest in football games, cocktail parties, and desultory bull sessions...
Though 44 years old, John Bull was also virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...
...play is chiefly impressive for its perfectly friendly, utterly deadly knowledge of both the English and the Irish. Leaping in two directions, Shaw spares no one, stops at nothing. But his fireworks sometimes shed new light, and his paradoxes sometimes prove very sound perceptions. Least of all does John Bull spare Larry Doyle, the Irishman who, like Shaw, has turned English, sees clearly what's wrong with both countries, and is not very happy in either...