Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...young men booed and heckled him. But everywhere the crowds were big-to the pros, unexpectedly big. Day after day the big round-shouldered amateur learned: how to roll with a punch, how to throw a hook. Most important, he never quit. Grudgingly, the newshawks came to respect his bull-like persistence, his obstinate honesty, the deep strength of his convictions, which he could not lay aside each evening as practiced politicians do. "This guy means it," one correspondent wired...
Before the funeral train had returned to Washington, the House leadership had been discussed and settled. Next man to hold the majority leadership of the House would ordinarily have been bull-built, conservative Representative Lindsay Warren of Washington, N. C. But only seven weeks before, Lindsay Warren had reluctantly, with many a backward glance, relinquished his lifetime ambition to become Speaker, had accepted from Franklin Roosevelt a 15-year commission as Comptroller General...
...read the whole thing through at a stretch, you get the impression toward the end of "having heard this before." Nevertheless, individually and collectively, the articles are forthright, readable, and well-informed. Moreover they are devoid of the bull-headedness which unsympathetic persons have been went to associate with the words "Student Union...
There will be fun--Wellesley, Radcliffe, football games, weekends, dances, bull sessions, sports; of work there will be a greater measure--reports, labs, recitations, exams, reading, conferences, quizzes; extra-curricular activities are legion--from mountain climbing to writing a daily newspaper; there will be no end of new people to meet--President Conant, your janitor, the guy who lives next door, and maybe even your roommate. You'll soon see that there is to be unending variety in your four years here, and maybe you will wonder what it will all add up to when it is over. Those very...
...took the wheel. A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape. He quizzed his captors about prison conditions, learned that they believed they were abused, since they said the trusties used bull whips on them. They admitted that they had killed a guard. Mr. Horsfall remarked: "They treated us like relatives...