Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patsy with the bull, the actual business of dismantling the animal begins. A man with two gaily festooned spears attempts to insert them between the bull's shoulder blades. He does this several times, so that by the time the matador carries the fight to the bull with a sword long enough to row a boat, the bull is charging around with five or six of these spears sticking...
...admire their graceful movement as you would admire any athlete with rhythm and coordination. Several matadors did not even move their feet as the bull charged the cape; they merely pulled the cape aside, arched their bodies, and let the bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According to how the crowd reacts to his performance, the matador is allowed to retain one bull's ear, both ears, or both ears and the tail. As he struts around the ring acknowledging the appreciation...
Said the first Stalin cover story: "If peace is menaced by Benito Mussolini, at least, like an honest rattlesnake, he jangles his sword. Stalin acts without warning ... Exactly where Stalin stands on the question of overthrowing the U.S. Government appears from what he said last year in an address to the American section of the Third International...
Since 'a could draw a sword, and is ill-schooled...
...Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption in every shape or form." The politicians had been arrested, the communique added, because their parties had disregarded the Commander in Chief's order to purge themselves of corruption or be purged...