Word: cordovan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed the applause." Who wouldn't, if you had one been El Cordobés, the Cordovan, Spain's foremost matador with a record of more than 2,000 bulls and an unforgettable style of frog jumps and other moves that brought the bulls-and the people-to their knees? In 1972, with no more whirls to conquer, El Cordobés, a.k.a. Manuel Benítez Pérez, retired as a millionaire to a cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year...
...thick glasses and a gold expansion watch band. In that garb, he was able to get only twelve secretaries out of 50 to go to the files for him. Later, in an "upper-middle-class" outfit-styled hair, expensive blue suit, beige shirt, silk polka-dot tie and brown cordovan shoes-he visited 50 more secretaries. This time, 42 of the 50 did as they were bade...