Word: barreras
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...Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...
Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
Thereupon Julian Marin, a boy from a nearby Navarre town, made himself a hero. He fought No. 21 all over the ring, on his knees, sitting on the barrera and on his feet, so close to the bull that twice everybody thought the bull had him. On his first attempt to kill, he missed; normally, this would have forfeited his chance to get a full set of trophies-the bull's ears and tail. On his second try, he killed well. When the president of the corrida gave him only two ears, the crowd waved handkerchiefs until Marin...
...Lorenzo Garza picked up his sword and for the tenth time prepared to try to kill this bull, there were so many bottles and cushions falling that he could not go on. The next thing Lorenzo Garza knew, he was standing by the barrera and the steers were trying to take the bull away. When the bull would not go with the steers, they brought in a cowboy, but the cowboy with his lasso was no better than Lorenzo Garza had been with the estoque and they brought in the steers again. After what seemed a long while to Lorenzo...
...there, and this man's account ran as follows: Balderas had indeed had a great success with his first bull. . . . But before he killed, he was caught and tossed. He was not gored, but the horn had ripped one leg of his breeches. He was thus behind the barrera, having the tear mended, when the next bull, drawn by one of the two other matadors, came out. . . . Balderas decided to go out and take the bull over. ... He need not have done this, and that is the essential tragedy of his death. At this point, someone came...