Word: corridas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors...
...U.S.S.R. is not prepared to be a bull in the corrida of Madrid," declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
Many such anxieties were laid to rest last week in the Cortes A people who regularly watch televised bullfights the way Americans watch baseball finally had its clear-cut political battle. Said an enthusiastic government spokesman as the debate caught fire: "The people have been asking for a little corrida, a little blood. Now they are going to see it where they should see it, not on the streets but in the parliament...
...fell back on the defensive, urging "change without risk, which is the only way to reconcile authority with liberty." As the debates ended with a diminished mandate for Premier Suárez, a newly self-confident nation took satisfaction in having passed another political test. One result of the corrida was clear: Spanish democracy had demonstrated its vitality and resilience...