Word: jujitsu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting for a trolley. It was really all a surprise." The fact that his future father-in-law was a contractor gave Niemeyer the idea of entering architecture school, but he did not have the necessary credits. So, he says, "I played soccer, went fishing and swimming, learned jujitsu." At 22, with daughter Ana Maria about to be born, he got admitted to Rio's Escola de Bellas Artes, dropped out a couple of times, managed to end up with a degree. Then he went to work for the man who did most to get Brazil's great...
...suite in Chicago's Ambassador West Hotel for 48 hours straight last week. Inside, a dozen high-priced lawyers barely paused to refresh. When they did pause at last, patent-challenger Zenith Radio Corp. had finally pinned heavyweight champ Radio Corp. of America after eleven years of legal jujitsu. In the biggest antitrust recovery in history, Zenith settled for $10 million in its $61.7 million suit against...
...across the floor soothing his back 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...
When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...
...Japanese were the first Asian people to turn from the ceremonial, protocol-stiff sports (sumo, jujitsu) of their past to more competitive Western athletics. They have also consistently produced the only