Word: mano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Symington's strategy is to race while seeming to drift. He plans to delay any announcement of his candidacy until well along in 1960. Aware that Jack Kennedy could trounce him in mano a mano popularity contests, Symington is determined to stay out of primaries, and to do no campaigning in the Oregon primary, in which his name can be put on the ballot by petition without his consent. . If he loses in Oregon next May, he can explain that, after all, he was not even trying...
...friends: "I'll come back as soon as I can stand. I don't want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...
...again on the bull, dripping blood, when his helpers scooped him up and carried him to the infirmary. True to the ritual of their craft, Ordonez killed Dominguin's bull, while doctors were examining the battered matador and deciding that he would not be able to resume the mano a mano "for 20 or 30 days...
...settle the matter mano a mano (hand to hand), Dominguin returned to the ring after three years of retirement to put his younger rival in his place. A longstanding and well pressagented public "feud" seemed to make the men enemies, although they are actually brothers-in-law and close personal friends. But feud or no, the fighting has been magnificent. Ordoñez, with his sweeping circulares, has been turning bulls into nosing calves. More than once, Dominguin has gone to his knees and performed his showstopper, el teléfono: leaning casually on the bull's head...
...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...