Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archtypical sex comedy title, which states the genre's basic premise, is Love is a Four Letter Word. The archtypical sex comedy lead is a hardened playboy, who turns out, in the third act, really to be no more of a stud than Ferdinand the Bull...
Cowboy Cutout. Still, it is likely that at least 10 million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took...
They walked rapidly into the crowd, trying to push people off the street into the large parking lot below. Many of the marchers panicked and attempted to bull their way out of the crowd, away from the police. Young children tripped and were stepped on, women were screaming, boys were shouting profanity at the police and spitting at them. Officers clubbed, and pushed, and kicked to make the protestors disperse...
...peril surfaces when "the success of the strong induces imitation by the weak, and incompetent persons bring themselves to ruin." Incompetent speculators lack, somehow, the sang-froid of an emotionless Baruch or the attributes of another successful pre-Depression speculator, Joseph P. Kennedy. Old Joe succeeded in the Great Bull Market of the '20s and magnificently survived the crash, suggested a friend, because he possessed "a passion for facts, a complete lack of sentiment and a marvelous sense of timing...
...like to put Red China in the U.N., settle the Viet Nam issue in the Security Council, and "cut out social security to people like me and give it to the people who need it." Sounds kinda pinko, eh? It was Alf London speaking, the unreconstructed prairie Bull Mooser who went on to become Governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1936. Laughing fit to bust britches, Landon tossed out a bagful of prickly pears as he celebrated his 80th birthday in Topeka, including a couple for today's Republicans: "They've got to quit kicking...