Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bull Connor thought he knew a thing or two about power. In May 1963 the public-safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., was ready to use water cannons and attack dogs on a group of civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The protesters responded in a way Connor found hard to fathom--they knelt in the street and prayed. "Let them turn their water on," said one. "Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them." Connor gave the order to mow down the marchers, and television beamed the scene to a horrified world...
...supposed to do--singing about current crises. Not since the Civil War era have they done so in such numbers or with such intensity. Sometimes they use serviceable old tunes, but just as often they are writing new ones about fresh heroes and villains, from Martin Luther King to Bull Connor...
...will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City...
...midst of a historic bull run, Reader's Digest stock has gone south and its market value has fallen by half. Revenues stumbled 8%, to $2.8 billion, in fiscal 1997. Operating profits at the company, situated in the Hudson River valley, have fallen for the past four years, from $393.7 million to $227.8 million (adjusted for restructuring). In January, Digest posted a 35% drop in its second-quarter earnings--the sixth straight quarter of bad news...
Tonight's game marks the 156th meeting against the good ol' Elis (11-13, 6-6 Ivies). They defeated the Crimson 72-66 several weeks ago in New Haven. After jumping out to a huge lead in the first half, the Bull-dogs were able hold on despite a second half Crimson comeback which brought the game to overtime. This time, Harvard plans for things to go differently...