Word: judo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judo, Anyone? Racial tension began to build up in Toledo (pop. 330,000) after the teen-age daughter of a Lutheran minister told police that she had been raped by three Negroes. While the Blade story said merely that the girl had been attacked by "three boys," newscasts on all of Toledo's TV and radio stations except WTOL repeatedly identified the rapists as Negroes. After its home edition was delivered, the Blade was besieged with telephone calls accusing it of coddling Negroes...
Capote's record will be a delight to all who like to see heavy political objects fly through the air at the whim of an expert in verbal judo.* Once described by a friend-famed Photographer Cecil Beaton -as a "pocket Hercules," Capote has performed a notable labor...
...Gill-sized Author Capote-5 ft. 4 in., 122 Ibs. -is an accomplished judo artist, is proud of his ability to outwrestle Screen Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart...
...well-shaded home on a quiet Cambridge-street, two soft spoken men direct the class work of the Nishimoto Style School of Judo. Each Wednesday night, amid a flurry of rising feet and falling bodies, they smile proudly at their more advanced students. There is some difficulty in distinguishing teacher from student. Generally, however, the student is larger and lands with a louder thud...
...after an unsuccessful flip, when his partner asked, "Did I hurt you?" Once of the younger pupils was unserved by a misplaced heel. "He got my middle toe!" he cried, while the instructor explained that although Nishimoto style is not so gentlemanly as jujitsu, neither is it "rough like judo...