Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, bullfighting has been Lima's favorite spectacle. The great Pizarro, according to tradition, killed the first bull in a fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
...brave soul and Minnesota is a safe distance from Rockefeller Plaza. Why not entitle your "Letters" column with a more lengthy, but obviously more appropriate, heading-"These are the souls who try TIME...
...December, after bouncing out of a well-heated studio into windy Rockefeller Plaza without coat or hat, Toscanini caught a cold. He insisted, despite a fever, on conducting his Sunday broadcast. Against his wishes, a doctor was called, and bundled the Maestro into bed. The doctor made Toscanini cancel his scheduled flight to Milan to open the La Scala opera season. Toscanini is fatalistic about death-he believes he will probably be killed in an accident-and scorns such medical precautions. Says he: "If you don't want to be sick, you don't have to be sick...
Ross deputized three of the strongest neurotics to meet Mollie at the Queen Elizabeth. He put her up at the Plaza, arranged parties for her and her husband, Clare Robinson, an official in the German control office in London...
Hardly a man in Lima heard the news without thinking at once of another assassination. Eleven years earlier Antonio Miro Quesada, editor of the powerful, conservative Comercio, had been shot and killed in the Plaza San Martin. That time an Aprista had done...