Word: judo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Has a modest manner, a quizzical mind, a pungent tongue. Likes to box, wrestle, ski. At 16, wrote a Judo manual in Arabic, entitled How to Defend Yourself, which became an Iraqi army text and a Bagdad bestseller. So far has shown little interest in politics...
...Mike (M-G-M). Pat (Katharine Hepburn) is a lady athlete who excels at tennis, golf, baseball, basketball, skeetshooting, archery, swimming, track, boxing, ice hockey, badminton and judo. Mike (Spencer Tracy) is a pugnacious Broadway sports promoter who wears striped suits and dark shirts and hangs out at Lindy...
...matter of minutes Barkely has discovered the driver and is off to the pier. As the boat bearing the captives pulls away. Barkeley leaps onto the deck and applies judo to a man on watch. Quickly he removes the unconscious Red's coolie shirt and slips it on. Hardly has he a chance to compose his features inscrutably when he is discovered. In two action-packed minutes, with the announcer keeping score, Bob's brisk punches K.O. five more comrades, all of whom, he points out, have "egg chins." He rescues Rita, who breathes, "You're wonderful." "Save that...
Some of the "every-man-his-own-policeman" studies, though, are not so gentlemanly. One, directed by head varsity wrestling coach John O'Donnell, aims to instruct the uninitiated in the elements of Judo and combat...
Quitting Rice Institute to turn pro in 1941, Jack was soon converted into a U.S. Marine judo instructor, spent four years at U.S. camps dreaming of green fairways. In 1948, back to golf, he became head pro at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, N.Y. Jack Burke can teach the game as well as he plays it; his trademarks are long giant-arc hitting, delicately accurate iron shots. A confirmed bachelor, he sees "no chance of my getting married. I've got to stay out of that trap until I get some golfing done...