Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long hours at the start. Most of the senior partners in the nation's top investment banking houses are millionaires; their salaries run about three times as high as those of officers in competing commercial banks. Hundreds of young men have ridden to riches in the long postwar bull market. John F. Donahue, 41, a West Pointer and former SAC pilot, did so well selling mutual funds door-to-door that in 1955 he decided to form his own fund, Federated Plans. He is now worth...
...recalled having been bull-whipped for ten hours by Vasseur, who looked "mighty pleased with himself." A woman told how he burned her breasts with a cigarette. Vasseur listened impassively, commenting, "It's possible" or "It's plausible." His mother blamed herself. Taking the stand, she cried: "I had a very strict mother. I wanted to spare my son. I sinned in the other direction. It is not he who ought to be on trial. It's me. It is my fault. Punish...
...matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted it in its rump." Yawned Manuel Benitez, better known as El Cordobes: "Even a great bullfighter can get tired...
...crowd shoehorned into Manhattan's Basin Street East last week was itching for action. "Ole!" they shouted. "Ole! Ole!" Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull. It was ole all the way. Grinning and joking like a bunch of frat brothers at a stag party, Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his side-burned sidemen served up a dozen tamale-flavored numbers that had the audience rocking in their seats. It is the middle-aged man's answer to rock 'n' roll, and it is called Ameriachi...
...Twinkle Star. By suspending a microphone from a wire stretched across the center of the arena, he recorded the roaring oles of the crowd and tacked the sound onto the beginning and end of Twinkle Star. Alpert then scraped together $200, produced the record under the title The Lonely Bull. It sold more than a million copies, and Ameriachi was born...