Word: grunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said a stolid Amsterdam Importer with a grunt of satisfaction, "we can again start working and begin mending broken dishes...
Because it forbids such professional monkeyshines as sadistic holds and Promethean agonies, intercollegiate wrestling is generally considered about as dull as sport can get. Not so in the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., home of wrestling conscious Lehigh, where the great grunt-&-groan is taken as seriously as football. Last week 800 Bethlehemites-town & gown alike-trekked 120 miles to New Haven, Conn, to see Lehigh's wrestlers compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...
...island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into a honking, gear-clashing bedlam of traffic...
...Japan's ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches...
Apparently the manly art of grappling is due for an upswing of interest during the months to come. Although official practice will not begin until after the Yale football game, already members of this winter's grunt and groan squad are getting into shape on the Indoor Athletic Building mats, and reports emanating from all corners of the University indicate that the team will not lack talent...