Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like almost all U.S. farmers, the cattleman is aggrieved. For four years the prices that he collects have buckled like a sick calf, while the costs of everything he buys-gasoline, fertilizer, tetracycline for ailing heifers, tractors from Peoria and bull semen from France-have climbed like corn in August. And just when he had started to make a comeback, a politically motivated peanut farmer from Georgia cut him off at the knees by letting in a lot of imports...
Other creatures on the islands do not always take so kindly to human intrusion. When we moved toward a well-worn rock that had long ago been staked out by sea lions, a huge bull came huffing toward us and made it all too plain that he wanted us off his favorite perch. Our retreat was a prudent move; a few weeks earlier, a German tourist who insisted on holding his ground lost a leg to another enraged bull. The visitors can also inflict damage, even when they have the best of intentions. Biologists on Santa Cruz...
...FIREFIGHTER leans earnestly forward and, motioning towards the others drinking coffee around the firehouse's kitchen table, says, "The first thing you've gotta learn is not to pay any attention to the bull these guys are feeding you about how sweet life is around here. I mean, this place is fucking crazy. It's a fucking fantasy island...
...investors are sitting anxiously on their cash until it becomes clearer that Wall Street's buying panic is more than just a flash. But this has done nothing to stem the three-week-old rally as foreign investors continue to join large U.S. institutions in leaping on the bull...
Andy Chaikovsky also impressed the home squad, playing his best match in memory to defeat bull-like Craig Morrison in straight sets, 7-6, 6-4. Chaikovsky found himself receiving serve at three-all in the first-set tiebreaker, but he coolly gutted out two straight points to take...