Word: litri
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Conservative Reluctance. His closest rival is Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year...
After taking his degree at the University of Edinburgh, young Dr. Sutherland went to Spain to assist his uncle, who had a practice at Huelva. There he saw many a bullfight, became cronies with El Litri, veteran matador. Twice Sutherland "played" a bull in a tentadero (practice fight). The first time, after two successful passes, the bull got him, might have killed him if El Litri had not bounded to his rescue...
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