Word: peo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matador Aparicio boldly approached. As one peoón held the bull's tail and two others blinded the animal with their capes, he killed the bull with a thrust at the base of the skull. Commented a newsman the next day: "Nobody in the ring showed such nobility, such cleanliness in battle, as that bull...
...seeking an advertising tie-in with the national convention. Said Democrat Lynes, in rounded Madison Avenue phrases: "Tastemakers are always going places (like Chicago), where they foregather with other tastemakers and come home and tell people about the wonders they have seen. Since they are influential in their communities, peo ple follow their lead...
...Coloreds. It affected Coloreds passing for whites and natives passing for Coloreds. But it also affected those who are what they are, and wondered whether they would get justice. Lawyers did a land-office business. Yet merely to apply for appeal required a fee of $28, from peo-ply whose wages seldom run more than $40 a month...
...mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged the peo ple in good society was not deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype...