Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyset men now climbing into the ring are veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in his late 30s, a hulking former hairdresser from Amarillo, wearing a white hat and boots stamped with red patches in the shape of the state of Texas...
...second inning of the last game to furnish the essential run. He has a fine sense of mischief: "A few years ago, they came up to me and not.' said, Some 'You're a tune later, catcher.' I catching said, in the 'No, bull I'm pen, I trotted in for a drink of water and I'm they not.' said, I 'You're caught in the first leftfield.' ball I hit said, to me, 'No, rammed the wall and broke my kneecap...
...Republic its quirky, thought-provoking appeal is its openness to multiple points of view, often expressed in the same issue. The magazine's warren of offices in downtown Washington, eight blocks from the White House, has something of the atmosphere of a college dormitory during a particularly contentious bull session. The mostly young editors range from old-style liberals to neoconservatives, and while the magazine unequivocally supports Walter Mondale, several senior staffers say privately that they may vote for President Reagan. Says Editor Hendrik Hertzberg, 41: "We are carrying out in our pages the same debate that the Democratic...
...casual origin of CMA was explained by Tom Posey, 38, a balding former Marine who is one of its founders. He said that he and four other veterans began meeting in Huntsville restaurants in July of last year, "just shooting the bull about what we could do to help" the anti-Communist forces in Central America. "At first we didn't know there was even anything going on in Nicaragua. We thought the contras were Communists...
...farm near Orlando produces alligators like chickens. Godwyn's company uses a technique of artificial insemination developed by Paul Cardeilhac, a University of Florida veterinarian. Sound waves from a $26,000 machine track the development of the female's egg-bearing follicle, then sperm from an alligator bull is injected at the appropriate moment. If all goes well, fertilized eggs yield snapping, 7-in. babies in 45 days. They grow at 2 ft. a year on Godwyn's farm, vs. about half that rate in the wild, to a harvesting size...