Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Madrazos, there are rewards far higher than this substantial income (about $162,000 a year). These rewards approach a peak when a breeder sees the carcass of one of his bulls being dragged around an arena, amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...
...with his pack of hounds in a lion hunt. When one old hound got a bellyful of such impudence, he turned on the interloper and chased him into the bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the old hound had rejoined the hunt, the young coyote was on his tail again, thus proving that he was set on learning the trade, and he knew that he could learn more from an old experienced dog than from a young...
Sanctuary. In Atlanta, an injured pigeon with its tail feathers gone and right side badly mangled interrupted its homeward flight long enough to alight on the lawn of the S.P.C.A. for repairs...
...good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps I will get on with the musicians' union...