Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Spain's cool, confident Matador Luis Dominguin, 33, was gored four weeks ago, he told friends: "I'll come back as soon as I can stand. I don't want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...
...MIXING IS COMMUNISM and FOLLOW FAUBUS FOR FREEDOM. Police cars trailed along, radioed Chief Smith that the trouble would come at 14th and Schiller. Smith and his cops were waiting. As the marchers came close, Smith yelled through his electronic "bull-voice" megaphone: "We're not going to stand for any foolishness...
...parcel of land, divided it into lots, became publisher of the local weekly and president of the Chamber of Commerce. Then he waited. In 1954 came the sort of man that Tallent had been waiting for: Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will fall from heaven.' Don't ask me why, but we believed...
...coast. "I had a tremendous steamroller-I could do anything I damned pleased," he said, but the Navy regarded him no more for his victories than for legends about his brilliant staff ("the Dirty Tricks Department"), his casual mess ("This is a pretty rough bunch; we don't stand on rank"), his inability to make speeches to his men that sounded more inspiring than: "I've never been so damned proud of anybody...
...figure of 663,805. In the National League, the San Francisco Giants have been playing Seals Stadium (cap. 23,000) to an average of 18,000 all year long, and the Los Angeles Dodgers drew 120,000 in two big games with the Milwaukee Braves during their last home stand...