Word: espada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken another sword from his mozo de estoques and killed the bull, with...
When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...