Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perform a fire dance, and the mesmerism is like that of a bull-fight. The drums and the singing grow quiet as the two men, both stripped to the waist, both black as the night, dance with torches in each hand. They pass the torches over their bodies and let the flames lick their faces. They walk on hot coals and seem to wash their bodies in the fire--which does not burn because the voodoo god protects his dancers...
...fights and the sixth-ranked bantamweight in the world, Rose was strictly a substitute challenger-for California's No. 1-ranked Jesús Pimentel, who had demanded a bigger share of the pot. Dancing and weaving, easily evading the champion's bull-like charges, Rose raked Harada with sharp jabs, floored him for an eight-count in the ninth round and outpointed him on the cards of the three ring officials, all of whom were Japanese...
...ethereal abstractions. But this does not mean they are anti-intellectual, any more than it means that the medieval scholastic is a true intellectual. Often, just the opposite is the case: we've all had times when we've felt that we've learned far more from a good bull-session than we have from a lecture...
...more of 100 and 110 acres outside Demorestville, the 330-acre Hullvue Polled Hereford Farms near Picton, and a half interest in the 240-acre Golden Hawk Hereford Ranch near Demorestville. Around those various properties are scattered his 540 head of cattle, including a prize Polled Hereford bull named Hardean Woodrow Masterpiece-one of whose heifers sold at auction last year for $2,500. Hull does not really expect to get that much for any of the 57 head he will put on the block at his annual auction next August; he'll be satisfied if he clears...
...some places a loudspeaker would come over in a helicopter or sometimes they came up to a segment of a city and broadcast over bull horns that people were to leave their homes immediately because they were bombing an area. In other sectors no warning was given. Sometimes you had as much as a couple of hours; sometimes you had no warning whatsoever. Anything which ran out of these areas of course was shot as being a suspected Viet Cong...