Word: corufia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull to kill a man with a sword is news almost anywhere, but when it happened last week at Corufia, with the greatest living bullfighter in the ring, Spanish editors stopped the presses...
...Corufia last week the great Belmonte stood with sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing...
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