Word: matadores
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...bull ring. Usually, a few steers driven into the arena will herd the reluctant bull to the exit. Sometimes, men were sent in with long clubs to break the bull's legs so that he could be hauled out by mules. Or the peones, or the matador himself, would lure the bull up to the inner fence where an accomplice could jab a dagger into the base of his skull. In Madrid, as a last resort, a pack of hunting dogs is used to weary the animal...
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...