Word: toros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers (1889), the Duchess of Plaza-Toro recites: / write letters blatant...
...total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction...
...babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings off to the West Coast with the traveling menagerie for which he has been appointed barker. El Toro Molina, the chief exhibit, is a youthful monster who barely knows how to put up his hands and has the fighting spirit of a titmouse. Eddie throws a cocktail party in Los Angeles to sell the Giant of the Andes to the press...
...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...
...minutes later, the same bull had caught a visiting runner from the town of Villaba and killed him. With two deaths to his credit, the big black bull, with the number 21 on his side, was known and hated by the entire crowd. They whistled and screamed "toro malo" and showered down more cushions and bottles than they had at the unfortunate Pepin Martin Vasquez...