Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beavers opened their season last week with a 17-19 victory over Yale. In last year's match. CCNY overran the Bull dogs...
...about 8:15 a.m. It had been unlocked earlier in the morning as regular procedure, but no members of the administration had arrived in their offices when OBU went in. When Dean May arrived for work the building was locked and barricaded from the inside. May spoke through a bull horn to the demonstrators and told them that they would be charged with trespassing unless they left. About 15 per cent of the demonstrators were not Harvard students. but came from other OBU campus groups...
Teddy bears kid stuff? Not so, says Peter Bull in his book, Bear with Me, published in England. Give a Teddy to an impressionable child, and the bear has a place in the child's effects and affections for life. Bull, a character actor whose own family of Teddies numbers 14, presents ample and arresting testimony to the fact that he is no oddity but merely one of thousands of thoroughly grown-up people, all dedicated "arctophilists"-friends of the bear...
...obtain such hitherto top-secret information, Bull ran a front-page ad in the London Times requesting "History of E. Bear Esquire. Reminiscences, Data, Photographs." He also issued public pleas for facts and figures on arctophilia during television appearances with "Theodore," oldest of his own Teddies (all of whom, he complains, get into "a foul temper" when he is away from them). Letters poured in from both American and British bear lovers, as well as from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles...
...Teddy's future, Bull looks to the past, his tone Churchillian. "They have gone into battle on guns, tanks and in haversacks. They have saved lives by intercepting bullets, breaking falls, and just being around. They've flown round the world, been drowned in floods, burned in concentration camps and worshiped as totems. There are no cases of disloyal, treacherous or cowardly Teddy bears. They seem destined to survive everything and emerge as a triumphant symbol of something or other...