Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1917, the ranch's cattle-English Shorthorns and Herefords-were doing poorly. They sickened in the blazing Texas sun. Kleberg decided to try Brahman bulls, which thrive on grass feeding and India's killing heat. Other cattlemen shook their heads. Brahmans had not worked out too well for other breeders. But Kleberg bred the Brahmans and Shorthorns together till he evolved what he wanted, a cross-breed bull named Monkey...
...that such a group should: outsized ends, tough, rangy tackles, fast guards, and a blocky pivot man. Wingmen hail from the Deacons and the Bunnies, with Bill Eaton and Joe McVicker respectively on the flanks. Biggest sector of the line is the tackles, where Leverett's "Moose" Chilcott and "Bull" Nozak from the Yard can throw a total of 460 pounds at the opposition...
...second team, however, there was a large sprinkling of this year's opposition. Among those chosen was Fred "Bull" Nadherny, who accompanies the Chipper in the backfield...
...Union had no medical service worth the name. There were no litter bearers and no means of taking wounded from the battlefield. At the Battle of Gaines's Mill the Army of the Potomac abandoned more than 2,500 wounded to the Confederates. After the second Battle of Bull Run, dying men lay on the battlefield for five days. The only escape for a wounded man was to be helped from the field by his comrades. This was a fact that able-bodied soldiers soon learned to take advantage of: a casualty who had suffered only a slight scratch...
...Lipsett, Inc. arranged for nine other tugs and a Coast Guard cutter for the trip to the graveyard, Newark, spurred by all the publicity it was getting, appealed to retired Admiral Halsey, a New Jersey native, for advice. "Bull" Halsey, a carrier man, who did not have much use for battleships anyhow, replied: "I don't known a damn thing about patrolling channels." The London News Chronicle joined the fun. It cabled to find out if a revolution was impending. Replied Newark: "Let there be no dancing in the streets of London. This is no civil...