Word: bullyboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lecturing in Arizona, Novelist Erskine Caldwell set up his own bullyboy definition of literature, then admitted that he did not measure up: "Literature implies a graceful treading along a prescribed course and a conformity to the sensibilities of prejudiced minds. I am not quiet-spoken, and I do not have a velvet touch. I like to hammer, hammer, hammer, and make all the noise...
...University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena's dockworkers immobilized 72 cargo-crammed freighters in the harbor, Banda nationalized the port of Colombo. Over the opposition of moderate members of Banda's coalition but with Banda's approval, the legislature last week passed a bill empowering Gunawardena's Agriculture Ministry gradually to take over...
Egypt was dismayed by Russia's display of arrogant power. Nasser's dispatch of Egyptian troops to Syria suggested he did not like another bullyboy muscling in on his territory. Probability: Nasser would be increasingly cool to offers of further Russian...
...General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman of Perón's regime...
...Nervous Type. But the Scranton unions' bullyboy art was at its ugliest in two other cases, one of dynamiting and one of stink-bombing...