Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turns His Back." He fought, for the first time in years, a Miura bull-a large, fierce breed, not suited to Manolete's specialty. Spaniards say: "A matador who turns his back on a Miura is a dead matador." Manolete drew the Miura through the sanguinary dance in the sand. As he drove the sword into the bull, one of the horns tore into Manolete's groin...
...remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice over the loudspeaker had intoned, "Se murió el mejor" (the best is dead...
...many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them. British correspondents reported having seen dead, naked women lying about villages of the Amritsar district...
...member of the U.S. Embassy arrived in Lahore from Delhi with another tale of horror. Reaching the small station of Okara, near Montgomery, he found the station platform utterly deserted except for several hundred dead Hindus and Sikhs lying around the platform, apparently slaughtered only a few hours before while waiting for the train to escape. All these people were workers in a textile mill which had been attacked by Moslems. Their bodies were mostly stripped and in several instances limbs had been torn from the bodies. The wife of a British textile factory manager told how a Moslem...
Pfeiffer then moved his followers on the nearby town of Csongrad and tried again. The Reds attacked Pfeiffer and one of his lieutenants with bicycle pumps, shoemaker's pliers and clubs. Pfeiffer was taken home "half dead," his friends said. A U.S. Army doctor who tried to examine him was waved away; even Hungarian civilian doctors were barred. A Communist-appointed police surgeon took over the case, pronounced the patient's injuries superficial. If that was so, Pfeiffer's wife wanted to know, why had her husband not regained consciousness? Oh, said the police surgeon, somebody...