Word: muletas
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...while their games differed, the four powerfully built athletes were alike in proving their sport far more savage and grueling than the proberbial "tennis anyone?" line would suggest. Each had the Killer-Instinct at the net, and when volleying, the swarthy Segura resembled a matador burying his muleta...
...girl took bold command. Four times she drew the bull's charges in neat pases naturales, once so narrowly that blood from his flank streaked her tight-fitting pants. "Ole, huera! [Nice going, blondie!]," yelled the crowd. Then Pat executed a series of gaoneras (passes in which the muleta is held with one hand outstretched, the other behind the back). On one rush a horn grazed and jarred her. The fans yelled as they had not yelled since the great Manolete fought years ago in Juarez...
...Spaniard last week contemplated the doings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's Prime Minister, and drew a fetching analogy. "When a torero and a toro are in the ring," explained the Spaniard, "sometimes somebody from the audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...
Prime Minister Nehru last week continued to wave his diplomatic muleta. Two weeks ago he had proposed a deal whereby U.N. would seat the Chinese Communist delegates; the Russians, in return, would come back to the Security Council table and "discuss" the question of how to stop the Korean war. Joseph Stalin, as cagey a bull as ever pawed the sand, eagerly endorsed the Pandit's proposal. Last week, in talks with British Ambassador Sir David Kelly, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in effect suggested the same deal...
Nehru's friends reported that the Pandit was "disappointed." For the time being, at least, he put his muleta back into his pants. Nobody wanted to jail the spontaneous Pandit, but the torero would be well advised if he kept his eye on the toro and let the esponténeo stew in his own muleta...