Word: greco-roman
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...wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...
Unlike the free-for-all of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Greco-Roman rules forbid use of the legs for attack or defense. That eliminates tripping, tackling, scissors grips and grapevine holds, and reduces wrestling to a grunting test of back, arms and shoulder strength. Popular in Europe, Greco-Roman leaves most Americans cold...
...Olympics last summer, U.S. Wrestling Coach Joseph Scalzo, 32, got hot under the collar when he saw Russia pile up 56 points in Greco-Roman wrestling while the U.S. scored none. What irked Scalzo even more: members of the U.S. regular wrestling team just stood around and watched, because they had never even tried Greco-Roman...
...glories of Greco-Roman art is the Venus Callipyge (Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks). The Greeks would have laughed themselves sick over the "dwindled-down derriere"*-and no doubt found a word...
When the early Church came into contact with the licentiousness of Greco-Roman civilization, it became the staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live...