Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lonely Grave. After the Army pulled out of Fort Yates in 1903, Sitting Bull's grave lay untended under the scraggly grass of the deserted parade ground. Then, last fall, a 78-year-old Sioux patriarch named Clarence Grey Eagle went on the warpath. He had witnessed the great chief's death when he was a boy of 16; when he heard that the grave was to be covered with water from the new Oahe Dam, he hurried indignantly to Mobridge (pop. 3,800), S.Dak. Would the Chamber of Commerce build a memorial, he asked, if he moved...
Mobridge agreed. Five other towns, anxious for a new tourist attraction, clamored for Sitting Bull's bones too. Montana's Senator James E. Murray argued that the chief should be reburied at Montana's Custer Battlefield Cemetery, near the remains of General Custer.* And North Dakota, aroused to civic pride after 63 years, suddenly decided it prized Sitting Bull after all. The old chief's granddaughters-Mrs. Nancy Kicking Bear, Mrs. Angelique LaPointe and Mrs. Sarah Little Spotted Horse-had all agreed to Grey Eagle's project, but North Dakota's Governor Norman Brunsdale...
...South Dakota are within Standing Rock Indian Reservation and thus on federal land. The Secretary of the Interior had agreed to the move. One morning last week, under cover of a blinding snow storm, Grey Eagle and a crew of workmen dug up Sitting Bull's bones, hurried them across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave. Grey Eagle went contentedly back...
Britain's ERNEST BEVIN "was bluff and hearty, easily angered and quickly repentant. Mr. Molotov treated him as a banderillero treats a bull, planting darts that would arouse him to an outburst . On one occasion, Bevin was provoked into saying that Mr. Molotov talked like Hitler . . . Molotov jumped to his feet and stalked to the door. Mr. Bevin, with contrition, hastened to explain away his heated words and, as a mark of his sincerity . . . [conceded] the point in dispute...
Today visitors can hunt down such varied exhibits as the stuffed carcass of "Winchester" (once called Rienzi), General Phil Sheridan's horse; the bones of "Swanky Dan," a prize bull; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass...