Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bull veered. The 21,000 aficionados packed into Madrid's Plaza Monumental let out a mighty gasp as its right horn slashed into the chest of Antonio Bienvenida, 38, dean of Spain's matadors. Twice, with a savage spasm of his lacerated but still powerful neck muscles, the bull tossed Bienvenida into the air. It was mauling Bienvenida, helpless on the sand, when the peones dashed up to cape the bull away. Instantly, Bienvenida's father and brother called on a husky, hawknosed six-footer, still dark-haired despite his 67 years: Dr. Luis...
...Linares, far from Don Luis's aid. To stanch the gusher-like bleeding from such a wound, standard techniques are too slow and inefficient. Don Luis has perfected a method of applying pressure to the lower belly, just below the point where the femoral arteries branch off. To let the wounds heal, he uses another technique of his own: draining them through the muscles. Though he has a private practice, Don Luis draws only $1,000 a year from his bullfight duties. He has well earned the gold medal that the Bullfighters' Association will give him this week...
...unionists persist in working without a contract, the companies can exert more pressure. They can stop deducting union dues from employees' paychecks, and they can refuse to pay union stewards who now work in plants and handle grievances, etc. The union let it be known that if no contract is signed, the U.A.W. will not be responsible for any scattered stoppages or slowdowns by workers. In turn, the companies let it be known that if unionists try such harassing tactics, the plants will be closed down...
...stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
...standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should have swept away four or five hundred with cannon, and the others would still be running...