Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the agitators finish playing patsy with the bull, the actual business of dismantling the animal begins. A man with two gaily festooned spears attempts to insert them between the bull's shoulder blades. He does this several times, so that by the time the matador carries the fight to the bull with a sword long enough to row a boat, the bull is charging around with five or six of these spears sticking...
...fight. All matadors seem to be slim, tanned young men wearing tight-fitting gray stripped clothes with their hats set at a jaunty angle. You admire their graceful movement as you would admire any athlete with rhythm and coordination. Several matadors did not even move their feet as the bull charged the cape; they merely pulled the cape aside, arched their bodies, and let the bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According to how the crowd reacts to his performance, the matador is allowed...
...matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...
...matadors were deprived of one possible victory in the opening match when the bull in question refused to take an active part in the goings-on and was dismissed. Maybe that made it a charity show...
...best thing about watching a bull fight is the stadium. It is round, so, as Bill Bingham used to advertise another stadium, every seat is on the 50-yard line...