Word: picadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrambling to his feet, the bull, wavering neither to left nor right, charged head-on for the jeep that had goaded him. As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting...
...only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador. On the other hand, heifers, which will never get a chance at a torero, are worked to exhaustion to study theif future value as mothers of fighting sons...
...muscle-building portions of corn, barley mash, chickpeas and beans. Vaqueros on quick-footed ponies place the food on one hill, water on another several miles away. Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw a picador and his horse five feet up and over the arena's barrier...
Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...