Word: fightless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left side scrape his body as the sharp left horn grazed his chin. Clean sword work followed, and the crowd awarded him both the bull's ears and its tail, symbolic of a top performance. For his second fight Girón drew in succession three fightless Ferdinands. Rather than cheat the crowd, Girón stepped out and offered personally to buy a fourth bull (cost: about $500). Again, with a blend of perfect art and courage, he earned two ears and the tail. "This bullfighter," wrote Critic Curro Castañares, "valiant beyond all possibility of exaggeration...
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