Word: matador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain's dashing ex-Matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, 29, whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled...
...trick is done with a massive trailer that the Air Force calls a "zero length launcher." Normally used to launch Martin Matador guided missiles, the trailer has folding. steel arms that slant the missile upward so its powerful rocket motors can skim it into the air. The same apparatus, only slightly modified, has been found to work with full-size, inhabited jet planes...
...directors' optimism was also based on some invigorating future prospects. Martin is busily turning out a wide range of products, including the B57 Canberra bomber, the Matador guided missile and the P5M flying boat for the Navy. In addition, Martin has the first high-speed jet Navy seaplane (the P6M) as well as a new Navy missile and a classified high-speed plane for which it just won a contract...
After her sensational Ciudad Juárez debut in 1952, Pat joined the bullfighters' union as a matador de novillos (apprentice fighter of bulls five years old or less), and became the union's first woman member since the memorable Peruvian Conchita Cintron, who quit the bull ring for matrimony in 1950. In the next two years, she killed 80 bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away...
...aged aircraft in 1949, NATO strength has grown to: 7,000,000 soldiers, among them nearly five British and better than five U.S. divisions stationed in West Germany; 5,000 tactical aircraft, most of them jets, on 160 airfields; batteries of U.S. atomic cannon and stockpiles of Matador guided missiles; twelve national navies; a vast trelliswork of communications, pipelines, storage dumps, officer-training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic...