Word: jai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also undefeated, Jai Yuh led the saber contingent to a 6-3 triumph...
...Carson City-Reno-Lake Tahoe area were gnawing the manicured arcs right off their well-kept fingernails. For neither the first nor the last time in the history of Nevada, the only state in the U.S. where gambling is legal in nearly all its forms (prohibited: dog racing, jai alai), an organized band had figured out a way to fulfill the fondest dream of hundreds of thousands of lemon-loathing laymen: hitting the jackpot on the slot machine, otherwise known as the one-armed bandit...
...wife and older children were out working; his four-year-old son Bikram was playing outside the hut. Hari Singh took him inside, laid him on a cot and, with a scream of "Kali mai ki jai" (Hail Mother Kali), cut his throat. Then, carrying Bikram's bloody body and chanting the name of Kali, he strode out along the street. An awe-struck crowd followed him to the temple of the goddess, watched while he sprinkled the blood on her black image and smeared it on her forehead...
Grim Statistics. Alfonso de Portago was not a man to let such grim statistics disturb him. He had not only playboy inclinations, but also the talents of a natural athlete. The more spectacular a sport, the more he liked it. For a while, he favored jai alai and polo. He had barely learned about the dangers of bobsledding when he was picked to represent Spain in the winter Olympics. "The mere fact that we race requires no courage on our part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what...
...another conquered the Canary Islands, a third sailed with Conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez unsuccessful expedition to Florida. The current and 17th Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of sports. At 28. lean and swarthy Alfonso de Portago has been a champion jai-alai player, a fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve-hour...