“Only those people who don’t know me call me Bull.”143 It was no wonder that Halsey rejected the nickname. It was decidedly double-edged, and grew more so on reflection. The bull is respected for its size, strength, and aggression, but not for its tactical acumen. The bull is stubborn, unreasoning, “bull-headed.” It goes about its work heedlessly, “like a bull at the gate.” Other large beasts are clumsy in tight quarters, but it is the bull that is most dreaded by the world’s china shop proprietors. Every mammal leaves its feces on the ground, but it is the bull’s that has a revered place in
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