Word: jitsu
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...other morning, my head has not been very clear. An interesting thing about that incident was that I could have thrown the fellow back up again if I had felt like it, because like all scions of the renowned house of Huey. I'm not so had at jiu jitsu. Of course I had to be pretty careful about letting people know who I was, because the Cubs are still after me, and there were a couple of their scouts around all week. They would have known that only Huey skill and strength could have done what I was considering...
...government just fallen. Twice Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi has a son, Kazuhiko Hamaguchi, at present a research worker in the New York branch of the Bank of Japan. Graduate of the Imperial University of Tokyo, onetime intercollegiate jiu-jitsu champion of Japan, fond of tennis, eager for golf, Son Kazuhiko shares a small villa at Bayside, L. I., with an office mate. Interviewed last week he giggled politely, admitted that his father likes walking and reading, wears kimonos at home, European clothes on the street...
...Other Commoner Prime Ministers were: Takashi Hara (1918-21), assassinated by a megalomaniac in 1921; Reijiro Wakatsuki (1926-27), poet, jiu-jitsu expert...
...varied are the requests received at the Student Employment Office that Harvard men would need almost a universal talent to satisfy The demand completely. Ventriloquists, sleight of hand performers, and experts in Ju Jitsu, are only a few of the special artists asked for from time to time Requests for expert accountants, advanced Greek scholars, experienced house painters, furnace men, and life guards help to swell the list of possible employments...
...used a style of combat peculiar to his nation; Jiu Jitsu, the gentle and famous art of making an opponent use his strength to encompass his own defeat. For 3,000 years the Japanese have used this graceful and economical method of self defense. Jiu Jitsu must not be compared or confused with another often pictured species of Japanese wrestling, somewhat like capoeira, in which two 400-lb. bullies stand face to face and each endeavors mainly by pulling at the sparse clothing of his adversary to topple him over. Jiu Jitsu requires enormous training; Jap boys rise early...