Word: tienta
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...picture, of course, it is Lana who suffers most. And at 44, Actress Turner looks precisely like a girl whose million-dollar assets have been frittered away on gaudy clothes and dime-novel escapades. So she goes out to a friend's hacienda, dolls up in traditional tienta costume, falls off her horse and gets gored by a young bull. Moments after they rush her to the hospital, her marriage is saved. Only Love is lost, but probably no one will notice...
...year-old, when the ranch held its tienta (test) for the young bulls, Gitano astounded the company with his fighting qualities: he knocked the picador's horse sprawling and gored one of the capemen. The boy was proud, but he was sad too. In two years Gitano would be sent to the corrida to be artistically butchered for the pleasure of the public...
...When the jeeps came through the gate, the bull glared suspiciously and trotted off across the wide pasture of Mexico's La Punta, the world's biggest ranch for raising toros bravos (brave bulls). The jeeps bounced after him in hot pursuit. They were out on a tienta, a test of fighting quality (with modern trimmings), on which all things at La Punta depend...
...calves, vaqueros carefully note the mother's number-branded in foot-high figures on her side-for entry in the register. Then the calf, itself numbered and registered, is turned loose to roam. At the age of 18 months, fighting bulls are rounded up for the all-important tienta. It is the only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador...
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