Word: novillada
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Mexico City, it was still the novillada (young bullfighters' season)-but the brand-new, 48,000-seat Plaza Mexico (world's largest bull ring) was jammed with aficionados. Never had they seen a novice like Joselillo (Little Joe) Rodriguez...
Last week Mexico City finished its novillada with a special benefit fight for 21-year-old Joselillo, which brought him $12,660. Few days later, he was wounded by a bull, got stitched up, returned to fight a second bull, got wounded again. This winter, if his health lasts, he will become a full matador, fit to join the really tough company of the great Spanish past masters, Manolete and Ortega. Say the Mexicans of immovable Little Joe: "His future is either five million pesos-or the mausoleum...
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