Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alam & Alad. In Egypt, Babylon and China, the whole culture was built on the ideas of the stargazers. Each nation was ruled by the incarnation or representative of some sort of Sun God or Son of Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots...
...would seem, therefore, to be of some significance . . . that the first letter of the alphabet is Alpha, the Hebrew Aleph, 'a Bull' . . . Scanning down through the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek...
...what a magnificent job he had done dealing with Stalin? You might check his speech today. Of course, for many politicians Yalta remains a haunting memory, a kind of ubiquitous genie that just won't go back to fairyland... Do you remember how the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Bull, was bypassed and ignored and how that very special group of experts on world problems and everything size decided they were the men to settle the fate of mankind for all time to come. They went out to Yalta and greeted the Barbarian and talked about democracy and told...
...parliamentary behavior. Labor's "keep calm" moderates were for formally censuring Nye, but not for expelling him: to do so during an election year would be to court defeat. Clem Attlee himself leaned to the moderates' view. Attlee's usual response to Nye Bevan's bull-like forays into vital issues-e.g., Formosa, negotiations with Russia, gibing at the U.S.-is to adopt as much of the Bevanite position as he can, and thereby undercut the Bevanites' appeal. It has led him up some strange alleys...
...great bull market stumbled to its knees last week. In five days stocks, as rated by the Dow-Jones industrial average, took their worst spill in 15 years. The selling started slowly on the first day of the week. Next day, as brokers crowded around the 18 trading posts of the New York Stock Exchange, the trickle of sales turned into a deluge. On four out of five days prices dropped, volume soared as high as 4,590,000 shares a day, highest daily total since the beginning of the year...