Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cellar of the building, directly under the delegates' feet, were six hogs and four cows. The cows were equipped with windows through which scientists peered into their stomachs. And upstairs, on the wall directly opposite the speakers' platform, was a six-foot-high, full-color portrait of a prize bull...
...trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks he has heard the rare warning of a bugle signaling that his allotted time for the kill had nearly expired. So badly did he butcher...
Throughout, the conference was heavily policed by throngs of bull-necked security agents. The opposition Socialist newspaper Al Mouharrir drily commented: "If the Arab League can isolate Israel as completely as the security forces isolated the Casablanca Prefecture, and if the League can divert the Jordan waters as successfully as traffic was diverted in downtown Casablanca, then the conference will have been a great success...
...Bull-Necked Throng. At meeting's end, as usual, the League members came up with a bland six-point peace plan that called for, among other things, solidarity against Israel, noninterference in one another's domestic affairs, an end, once and for all, to press and radio diatribes against other Arab states...
...many of these same clergy and laymen describe Paul as a puzzle, an enigma, a Hamlet. "He has such a blah personality," complains one New York suburban housewife. A baffled Jesuit philosopher says: "I feel like a bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person...