Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep in the grueling women's 10,000-meter cross-country ski race, also won the 5,000 meters, collected still a third gold medal as anchor woman on the victorious 15-kilometer relay team. Vladimir Melanin, described as "a 30-year-old student," coolly plinked 20 straight bull's-eyes (at ranges up to 273 yds.) to win the biathlon-an oddly militaristic combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. Skating with all the speed and sureness of, say, the Chicago Black Hawks, Russia's hockey team rattled off seven straight victories, outscoring its opposition...
Though it took its ungallic name from a Norwegian engineer, Compagnie des Machines Bull is as French as la gloire and pommes frites. The French fairly burst with pride when, using scientific skill and superb marketing, Machines Bull in the last decade briefly challenged giant IBM with its excellent small and efficient computers. Today Machines Bull is slipping toward bankruptcy-but pride has not been lost. Last week the French government blocked an offer by General Electric to buy up 20% of Machines Bull stock for a reported $40 million. Saving the company, said Finance Minister Valéry Giscard...
...German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors and let me go into the arena with a little bundle of hay, and you will see that I'll make peace with the bull...
...students there often and pretty late," said Sekler. "I think they have been made to work very hard. You can't bull your way out. Either you perform or you don't. And if you don't there are plenty of people waiting...
...more dangerous men were busy. Back from the mainland, where they had gone in case the coup failed, rushed the people who would lead "the people": Afro-Shirazi Party Boss Abeid Karume and Umma's Abdul Rahman Mohammed, better known as "Babu" (Swahili for father). Karume, a burly, bull-necked labor leader who leans to Moscow (and therefore may be the group's moderate), became President, while Babu, whose experience in foreign affairs includes a recent trip to Peking, was named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian wife, a Moscow education...