Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision, the Supreme Court last week upheld the 1963 conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and seven other Negro civil rights leaders for defying an Alabama state court injunction against a civil rights march in Birmingham. King, whose group had been denied a parade license by burly "Bull" Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, was sentenced by an Alabama court to a five-day jail term and $50 fine for carrying out the march despite the restraining order. Reviewing the case, the Supreme Court majority took the position that King could have appealed the injunction...
...Great Feat." Still, Walter seemed to have time on his hands. He became a teaching assistant in finance at M.I.T., won an investment contest in Harvard's Bull and Bear Club by totting up a 68% gain in four months, acted as resident tutor at his fraternity house, founded his own data-processing company, which has a contract with the First National Bank of Boston, and flew to New York City once or twice a month to work in the institutional-research department of a brokerage house, Oppenheimer & Co. As the time approached for him to get his degrees...
...impress the dickens out of the general community. Very often there is more interest in the idea of the thing rather than in obtaining the best musical result. All too often one gets the impression the projects' progenitors had one of those "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fantastic-if" bull sessions and then didn't know what to do with the music once they had decided to perform...
Eventually, Bull and G.E. hope to get more of the French computer market, which grows at the rate of 20% a year. To do so they must win back Charles de Gaulle, who is so dissatisfied with the American solution at Machines Bull that he is approaching the computer business with a different viewpoint. The French government expects to put at least $112 million in its Plan Calcul, which will help small French computer companies to pool know-how in order to cut a bigger Gallic figure in the field. This obviously will mean more competition for Bull and make...
Angling for the youth market, Watney's experimented with a swinging "discotheque pub" in London called the Bull Sheen in 1966. Since then, the company has opened six more, plans to set up others. And Grossman has found a ready market for the English pub-dart-board, half-pint mugs, Watney-Mann beer and all-overseas. Düsseldorfs Victoria was opened last week in a sort of tip-for-tap deal with local owners (Watney's supplies advice on "authentic" details, the pubs buy Watney-Mann's beer); more of them are planned for Madrid, Florence...