Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations-whether in New York or Paris-have grown used to an untidy priest. He is tall and strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive achievements. Some...
Novelist Yerby has done some catapulting himself. Beginning with The Foxes of Harrow, and repeating the performance with five successive novels, Yerby has mounted a vast, turgid body of prose on his publisher's publicity engines. Each time it has made a bull's-eye on the bestseller lists...
...largest suites, with many of them connected by easily-opened fire doors. Although the overcrowding has hit Eliot as much as any other college dormitory, it seems nowhere near so uncomfortable because the suites were so big originally. Big rooms, of course, tend to generate parties and bull session, which have been an Eliot trademark...
...firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...
...capital, the SEC last week reported that in 1951 corporations floated $7.8 billion worth of new securities, more than $1 billion above the 1950 total and equal to the alltime high in 1929. The new securities were more speculative than in recent years, chiefly as a result of the bull market. From 1940 to 1945, the SEC noted, only 16.1% of the new issues were common stock; the rest were bonds and preferred stock. But in the past six years, the common stock share of the total has jumped...