Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues...
Building operations on the hill stopped while a team of 15 archaeologists including De Lumley's wife, Marie-Antoinette, moved in, first with a bull dozer, then with trowels, knives, surgical instruments and brushes to carefully scrape away the dirt. "In removing 32 ft. of soil," De Lumley says, "we stripped away 200,000 years of man's history...
...bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull" saw red, battle-hardened officers sometimes fainted dead away...
...Washington. The competition was unbearable; indeed, as the pressure mounted, some of the entrants seemed a bit teched. One shaggy-maned candidate continually roamed the hallways, humming and conducting an imaginary orchestra with all the jabbing vigor of a shadowboxer; another, never without his trusty baton, sat in on bull sessions and conducted the rhythm of the conversation, cueing each participant as though he were a virtuoso soloist. Superstitions were rampant. One contestant, lest he be jinxed, ran off with his hands clasped over his ears each time someone tried to wish him good luck...
...Cattle Baron. But that wasn't all. As a byproduct, Hammer's distilleries made a mash that Hammer sold to cattle-feed manufacturers. This got Hammer interested in cattle, and he stocked his Red Bank, N.J., farm with prize Angus, including a giant champion bull named Prince Eric. "The cattle business turned out to be a bonanza," says Hammer. "In the three years remaining of his life, Prince Eric sired 2,000 calves. That one bull earned...