Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the bulls were good. Although Pepín Martín had never been gored, he seemed nervous. After a halfhearted effort with his first bull, he ran away from his second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon. The crowd showered the ring with cushions and bottles, shouting "Fuera! Fuera!" (Get out!), and when the fight was over Pepin Martin had to dodge more cushions as he tried to sneak through the gate...
...Manolete). He is tall, a little heavyset, and looks like a Yale man learning to be a bond salesman. Parrita does one thing that only he and Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending only on the feel of the muleta* in his hand to guide the bull and turn it. It gives you the same feeling that you get when an airplane goes into...
Before the Bull. On the last day (memorable for big, tough bulls), Manolete (real name: Manuel Rodriguez) himself appeared, icily calm in a white & gold costume. To him, rather than any other, is due the present revival of the art of the corrida. He gets as much as 150,000 pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte...
Most matadors keep the muleta between them and the bull. Not Manolete. He will stand motionless, between the muleta and the bull. The bull will look first at the muleta, then...
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...