Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day at Pamplona, it looked as if the great annual festival would be an anticlimax. Pepín Martín Vasquez, who has built up a reputation as one of the best of the younger men, was very bad. El Andaluz, an old hand, was just plain dull. But the bulls were bad that day, and the crowd tended to make excuses...
Better than Pepín Martín, but not what the crowd had come for, was Parrita. They call him "el Manolete de los pobres" (the poor man's Manolete). He is tall, a little heavyset, and looks like a Yale man learning to be a bond salesman. Parrita does one thing that only he and Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending...
...Chicago's tiara-like lake front. The Lincoln Park Zoo is not the nation's biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant race as they are this season, Lincoln Park has bigger crowds than Wrigley Field...
...example, the Government got tough with more than 60 Iraqis charged with a Communist conspiracy against the state. Chief defendant was Yusuf Salman, Moscow-trained Communist leader known to the underground as El Fahd (The Cheetah). Last week El Fahd, pale and thin after an eight-day hunger strike against conditions in his sweltering Baghdad prison, faced his judges in striped pajamas and sandals. Salman fainted in his chair as he heard the sentence: death for him and two codefendants. Thirty-four others were sentenced to prison, 28 were acquitted...
Mexico City's riproaring El Universal Gráfico ripped into a juicy medical scandal. Physicians assigned to make premarital blood tests were drawing out more than enough for the tests and were selling the extra amount (sometimes as much as a pint) at high prices. Roared the Gráfico: "These vampires are sucking the blood of Mexican men, robbing them of their strength just when they need it most...