Word: gir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Info the D.A.R. As call gir s in big cities, they commanded a minimum of $20 (and up to $100) per "sexual contact," averaged $20.000 a year each. But none had turned prostitute mainly for money; some of them came from well-heeled homes. When they emphasized the importance of money. Analyst Greenwald found, they were rationalizing their step...
...animal clear around him, letting the bull's 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...
...season's brightest star is César Girón, a 20-year-old Venezuelan from an old Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...
...conferees were 50 naked, ash-covered monks of the Naga sect. At a great parade during which thousands of enthusiastic Indians showered the holy men with petals and rose water, the Nagas at first wore loincloths, obeying police orders against nudity, but many soon discarded them. Explained Shivan Chidanand Gir, leader of the Nagas, a college graduate and ex-army officer: "For us, even the smallest shred of clothing hinders concentration and meditation...
...Gir had a specific suggestion for world peace: President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin, he said, should meet in the nude to talk things over-in a cave, or a holy city like Benares. The conference, said Gir, should be held in an atmosphere of "I have nothing to hide from you." Added Gir: "If the gentlemen have the vigor to accompany me, I will gladly lead them to an excellent cave...