Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, booming city, American in its neon-lit vivacity. The streets are choked with double-decker buses, sleek, new blue trolleys and shining U.S. cars. One foreign diplomat lamented: "I managed to get a Packard, but nothing less than the biggest Cadillac makes anyone here turn his head." Bull rings are jammed; top Matador Manolete can pull down the official equivalent of $12,500 for an afternoon's work. The number of prostitutes has hit an alltime high...
...Near Henderson, Colo., a truck driver named Margorito Gomez ran into a pole that carried a 13,000-volt power line. Within seconds, five nearby farm houses caught fire, the local telephone exchange was knocked out, a bull was electrocuted, and all the electric water pumps in the area stopped pumping. At home, Gomez explained: "I'm subject to fainting spells...
...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
Jessup was the engine-room philosopher. He liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading...
...poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...