Word: matador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Techniques. The matador hovered near death, then began to gain strength slowly. This week Bienvenida was recovering. Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life...
...Matador? In Franklin County, Ohio, police sought a hit-and-run pilot whose single-engined plane swooped low, knocked a 500-lb. steer over a 5-ft. fence, flew away...
...classic form, the fall of a French Premier closely resembles a bullfight. First, the picadors and banderilleros harry the victim with light but painful barbs, until his chest is heaving and his flanks are blood-flecked. Then the matador steps forth in solitary grandeur, executes his breathtaking passes and finally plunges his sword in for the kill...
...carry parliamentary controversies into the street," warned Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, "must be opposed in the interest of order in a constitutional state." As the U.S. Army almost casually announced that it already had guided antiaircraft missiles all over the country-in addition to scores of 600-mile Matadors that can be armed with either conventional or atomic warheads-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss went ahead with his plans to buy 24 U.S. Matador missiles for his own army...
...Secretary of Defense for Research and Development, recalls that it was all but impossible to get the Navy and Air Force to work together on a single 500-mile-range, subsonic, surface-to-surface missile: "As a consequence, we have two such missiles−the Air Force's Matador and the Navy's Regulus." Cost of developing Matador and Regulus, with practically the same range, speed and bang: $200 million apiece...