Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Americans seem appalled by the crudity and barbarity of bull-fighting. We know nothing like this in our rather wide assortment of athletics, except possibly a B.C.-B.U. hockey game, so perhaps it requires the Spanish temperament to appreciate bull-fighting as a sport and as a form of entertainment. The Spaniard might point out that his sport involves no more punishment than many American boxing matches, and he would be partly right. But the analogy is not really valid: here when one of the participants appears severely weakened, his opponent is not permitted to butcher him completely...
...same token, we have no sport in which any of the participants risks death to the extent the bull fighter does. Bull-fighting puts teeth in the old Grant-land Rice quatrain about it not mattering whether you win or lose but how you play the game...
Anyway, before today's first match was five minutes gone the attendants were whisking one fellow out of the ring. He was not the matador, the man who engages the bull, but one of a squad of agitators who dart around the arena harrassing the bull, armed only with a cape. If it appears that the bull will make contact with one of them, the man sprints behind one of four barricades situated around the sides of the arena. This particular agitator got caught out in the middle, where the bull bounced him around twice on his horns, then crushed...
After a 26-hour train trip from Paris, Rita Hayworth arrived in Madrid, without husband Aly Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...
...sentimentally rush to the side of the Arabs in North Africa, they are mindful of the American Revolution, and think they are siding with George Washington. They actually should be thinking, say the French, of their own Indian wars, and should realize that they are siding with Sitting Bull, while committed by a military alliance to General Custer. The American dilemma: What happens if the Sioux go seriously on the warpath and Custer decides to make a last stand? America's great military bases in North Africa are in Indian territory...