Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't trembling any more. She did slow, undulous bumps and highly negotiable grinds, a smile spread round her ice-blue eyes, and she gave quite enough of a hint of the carnal power and consuming ambition that had made her famous. "Ein richtiger Teufelsbraten," shouted a bull-necked German. "A veritable devil's dish...
Moving into Birmingham in the first week of April, King and his group began putting their plans to work. Bull Connor, who had lost the election but refused to relinquish power, sent his spies into the Negro community to seek information. Fearing that their phones were tapped, King and his friends worked up a code. He became "J.F.K.," Ralph Abernathy "Dean Rusk," Birmingham Preacher Fred Shuttlesworth "Bull," and Negro Businessman John Drew "Pope John." Demonstrators were called "baptismal candidates," and the whole operation was labeled "Project C"-for "Confrontation...
...protest began. Day after day, Negro men, women and children in their Sunday best paraded cheerfully downtown to be hauled off to jail for demonstrating. The sight and sound of so many people filling his jail so triumphantly made Bull Connor nearly apoplectic. He arrested them at lunch counters and in the streets, wherever they gathered. Still they came, rank on rank. At length, on Tuesday, May 7, 2,500 Negroes poured out of church, surged through the police lines and swarmed downtown. Connor furiously ordered the fire hoses turned on. Armed with clubs, cops beat their way into...
...Response. The Negroes had created their crisis-and Connor had made it a success. "The civil rights movement," said President Kennedy in a meeting later with King, "owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln." That was at best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots seared the front pages of the world press, outraged millions of people. Everywhere, King's presence, in the pulpit or at rallies, was demanded. But while he preached nonviolence, violence spread. "Freedom Walker" William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated...
...champion of the World War I era, who was known as "El Fenomeno" until he put a little extra on a forehand one day and wound up whistling through a baseball-sized gap in his front teeth. Pelotaris like to compare themselves to bullfighters: the pelota is a charging bull, and the closer it comes, the bigger the thrill. In Miami some years back, one player was beaned and killed, and frontons tried to talk the players into wearing protective helmets. The suggestion brought hoots of disdain. Sneered one player: "Would a bullfighter enter the ring in a tank...