Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle-raising Texan; he became an artist. As such, on commission for LIFE, he landed on Peleliu in September 1944, with an assault wave of U.S. marines and lived through one of the bloodiest island battles of the Pacific war. Since his return he has been hanging around Mexican bull rings with a new ear for the heartbeats of men in danger...
...Second Tequila. So The Brave Bulls, Lea's first novel, is a war book of a kind that most critics forgot to expect. The Brave Bulls has nothing, ostensibly, to do with the war, but the sand of the bull ring in this book is also the sand of the Peleliu beaches; the black and powerful truth that fills the book is the truth of death that marines learned on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge...
...number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello, the famous and expensive matador. If Matador...
...most important coincidence, however, is that just a week before the event in Cuenca the matador faces a moment worse than any he has known in the bull ring: his mistress and his best friend are killed in an auto smashup after spending the weekend together. Matador Bello, knowing in his bones that both have betrayed him, feels uncontrollable fear for the first time. At the gate of the Cuenca bull ring, his mouth is dry, his palms...
Bugs & Slide Trombones. As a freckle-faced boy, Chuck was mostly interested in collecting bugs, growing gourds and sunflowers, hunting with a .22 rifle, and fishing in little Mud River. He played in the school band, starting with a big bull tuba but settling finally for a slide trombone. He went to Methodist Sunday school, stayed out of trouble, and was quiet almost to the point of being timid. "Nobody ever noticed Charlie Yeager much," says Lyle E. Ashworth, a classmate, "until 1943 when he buzzed the town in a P47 and sent old Mrs. Lon Richardson to the hospital...