Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...
First in the ring was a deep cherry-red bull named Del Zento I. Rodanz had already "measured him from rump to brisket, decided he wanted to take him home. So did two other well-heeled buyers...
...announcement, released at the White House, showed considerably more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...
...Wall Streeters wondered if Winchell had not done the Street a favor. He had shaken out many an amateur plunger who had no business playing the market anyway. Such a shaking down, they felt, was what the market needed after its long rise. Most Wall Streeters felt that the bull market still has a long way to go. One seasoned wag quipped: "What I want to know is-what does Charlie McCarthy think...
...Manolete was not to be the only star. Mexico's own Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...