Word: goto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan, some thugs run to a gentlemanly stripe. One such is Matsukichi Tsumaki, 47, a sekkyo goto (preaching bandit), who last week stepped from Akita prison in northern Honshu, a free...
...left at 13. He spent nearly two years studying Japanese and Chinese classics, passed his Foreign Service examinations brilliantly, was launched on almost two decades of diplomacy. By 1917 his fleetness of wit and tongue, his drive, brought him to be Secretary to Foreign Minister Count Shimpei Goto; the next year he was Secretary to Japan's first commoner Premier, Takashi Hara. In 1919 he was a Japanese delegate to the Paris Peace Conference...
...which they were both riding, Dew, coming up on the outside, crowded Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just a flare-up of competitive spirit," explained Chief Steward Tom Thorp, fining each boy $50 instead of setting them down for the rest of the year...