Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First they bred a buffalo bull with a domestic cow, found that the calf's disproportionately big head and shoulders Killed three out of four cows at birth. Then they crossed domestic bulls with buffalo cows, and normal births ensued. But there was one drawback: the first hybrids were sterile. Nevertheless the breeders persisted...
Today's cattalo looks more like a bull than a buffalo, but it has inherited the buffalo's robust qualities. It is bigger than a domestic bull, can stand cold much better. In weather which would freeze cattle to death, the cattalo survives...
Cradle Snatcher. In Waukesha, Wis., a deadpanned jury pronounced a Holstein bull guilty of contributing to the delinquency of minors (two heifers), fined his owner...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
...social and political ABCs from ABCA (the Army Bureau of Current Affairs). ABCA started after Dunkirk, when British troops had a lot of time on their hands, and needed a mental pick-me-up. Slick pamphlets crammed with hard facts were sent to platoon leaders, with orders to hold bull sessions about them. ABCA did far better than anything the U.S. devised to tell soldiers what the shooting was about...