Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four months after the bloody prisoner of war riots on Koje Island last February, many of the worst North Korean rioters, diehard Communists all, were moved by General "Bull" Boatner to the prisoner compounds on neighboring Pongam Island. There was an ominous hint of trouble to come on Pongam recently when the P.W. command uncovered Communist plans for a mass escape attempt. Last week trouble materialized with a roar in six compounds of Pongam's enclosure No. 2, where 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 prisoners are confined...
...love is lost between Mexican and Spanish bullfighters; in fact, for several years before 1950 no Spanish matador was allowed in a Mexican bull ring. This was Dominguin's first professional appearance in Mexico, and his father-manager was anxious about his famous son's reception...
...with his father and brother. The talk was in big figures. For each of his four fights in the Plaza Mexico he has been guaranteed $13,300, plus gate percentages that will bring the take up to about $22,800 for each fight. In his twelve years in the bull ring he has made a little under $2,000,000, and he has salted a lot of it away-some of it in Spanish hunting lodges and preserves, some in Colombian and Brazilian coffee investments, some in the National City Bank of New York...
...that, he was driven to the Plaza Mexico, the world's biggest bullfight arena, which he had never seen. He stamped over the sand, looking for pitfalls, and paced off the distance from the center of the ring to the barrier. Then he went to look at the bulls, the biggest and best Mexico could provide. Someone asked him how he liked the looks of them. "I never like a bull," he answered. "The enemy is never pretty." He has been gored several times, twice seriously...
...clock his servants began the elaborate ritual of dressing him. At 4 o'clock he stood in the sunlit arena, facing a capacity crowd of 50,000 and a patter of unenthusiastic applause. Dominguin looked coolly at the crowd, and crossed himself. The gates opened and the first bull charged...