Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
...French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...listened in court while 16 Germans who had worked with him testified against him. He tried to repudiate a long statement which he had made to FBI Agent J. Eldon Dunn in Germany. "Dunn, the blond beast, possessed hypnotic powers," he said. His only defense was a plea of insanity, and that he thought he was helping his country...
...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...slight, mild-mannered journalism instructor from Missouri stepped ashore at Shanghai. His fellow passengers piled into rickshas, but he could not bring himself to ride behind a human beast of burden. He walked to his hotel...