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Corn & Courage. Any bull that turns tail and runs is promptly tagged for sale or slaughter. To the rest, sharp-eyed experts award ratings which, in addition to B.P., include B.T. (Bravo Tarde), B. (for Bravo) and S. (Superior). By association with tamer bulls, the grass-raised fighters are gradually taught to eat 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...entire freshman lacrosse squad participated in yesterday's 11 to 3 slaughter of the Middlesex team on the Business School field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlesex Loses To '52 Lacrosse | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

...team spent the next two nights under Navy's hospitable roof, and then was led out to the lacrosse field for the slaughter. The Middles, one of the East's perennial powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Win Over Navy Highlights Ball Team's Trip; Stickmen Wilt | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...just an aimless slaughter...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spring Mourning | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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