Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China Sea. During World War II, it participated in strikes against the Japanese-held Indochina coast, at Saigon and Camranh Bay, and served as flagship for both Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. It bears the same name as the World War I battlewagon that ended up as a target ship for General Billy Mitchell's famed demonstration of air power in 1923. Today's New Jersey faces a potential new threat, in the form of North...
...only 5 ft. tall and she weighs just 901bs., but Spain's ponderous judiciary moved to confront her with all the caution of a broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel...
Under Straus, Macy's has never been a one-man organization. Nonetheless, just as the Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...
...platform, no ticket mate, no realistic hope of occupying the White House. Yet there he is, running for President with the approval of perhaps a fifth or more of the electorate-no fewer than 13.5 million adult Americans. Not since Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party emerged in 1912 has a third party so seriously challenged the two-party system. Not since 1825 has an election been decided by the House of Representatives, as this one possibly threatens to be. Yet, starting from the narrowest of bases, with a single stock speech and not one constructive proposal to offer...
...question exam that Medical Director Dr. George Moriarty says sifts out "emotional instability, stress and strain, sadistic inclinations, those not really interested in a police career, borderline cases and homos." In Cincinnati, groups of ten police applicants at a time take part in two-hour bull sessions on such topics as homosexuality and minority groups. Psychologists listen in, and observe their every move...