Word: espada
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...enthusiastic crowd came to hear Robert Creeley, Martin Espada and former poet laureate Robert Pinsky read from their own poems and from works that remind them of the Harvard Square landmark...
After two unsuccessful tries at the kill, Pat coolly wiped the blood from her hands and swaggered across the ring. Taking careful aim, she went in over the horns a third time, her feet leaving the ground as she sank the espada to the hilt. The fans poured into the ring to acclaim her triumph; the judges awarded her both the bull's ears. One judge babbled "Muchas gracias" over & over into a microphone. Pat's mother wept. Her father, a Texas oil engineer who had nerved himself to attend only at the last minute, cheered wildly. Cigarette...
Roared the Duke of Pino Hermoso: "Never! There will be no marriage between my daughter and this mozo de espada [bullfighter's servant] as long as I am alive...
...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...