Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture takes a quick look at the world's great bullfighters. There is ugly little Juan Belmonte, who developed close-in fighting around World War I because of his weak legs, inventing a style that made him seem a partner with the bull in a series of dance figures. There are shots of the hypnotic Arruza, the elegant Dominguin, the lady bullfighter, Conchita Cintrón, who fought on horseback...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
Rancher: Well then, Mr. President, I will sell you a bull-for one peso...
...visit to a ranch, Colombia's cattle-raising President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla enthusiastically admired his host's prize bulls, offered to buy one. "Your Excellency," said the rancher, "I cannot accept money from the President. I will give you a bull as a gift." Replied Rojas, squaring his shoulders: "As President, I cannot accept a gift...
...last week. It was the understatement of the week. With 650,000 steelworkers on strike and 90% of the industry shut down, there seemed little cheer for Wall Street's traders; yet they scrambled to buy. Along with steels, oil and aircraft stocks pushed higher, and the 1956 bull market went up on three of the four trading days. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 504.14. The rise of 11.36 points in the week put the market at the highest level since early May and well within striking distance of the alltime...