Word: matador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...
...most girls become actresses. The thing that turns them into a star is the need to be loved and accepted. Approbation to me means more than anything." By the time she was 16, she was getting approbation all over the place, even on a trip to Spain, where a matador spotted her in the stands and gave her both ears of his most recently vanquished bull. Outside the plaza de toros, her mother threw the ears in the gutter...
First, there's a conscientious and loyal air force general who has nightmares about a matador killing a bull. He's willing to do anything for his country and his President, who's a college buddy of his, and he says that nuclear war is unthinkable, that anyone who says we can survive one is crazy. In the end he blows up New York and kills himself...
...bananas." One of the most recent is the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which Spain gave him after he raised $5,000 for the orphaned children of Spanish sailors who died when their ship was lost at sea. "I thought Franco might make me a matador, or something," Cushing says...
...fighters been so evenly matched. Twice before, they had traded the welterweight title on controversial decisions, one of them split; and in 40 rounds neither had been able to knock the other down. But they insisted that things were going to be different this time. "I am the matador," boasted Challenger Rodriguez, 26, "and I will kill the black bull." That brought accusations of race-raking, to which Rodriguez retorted: "I should call him maybe the blue bull?" Champion Griffith, 25, shrugged it off: "I'll knock him out in five...