Word: jujitsued
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startled a friend, unused to bitterness in Henry, by remarking that he was beginning to think that Harold Ickes was getting a little old to go on as a Cabinet member. Toward the end of the week his temper flared in an unscheduled exhibition of his jujitsu skill. In the Wardman Park Hotel lobby he refused to give Cameraman Robert Woodsum permission to take his picture, then turned and ran. Woodsum chased the Vice President. Wallace whirled around, hoisted the 180-lb. cameraman in a spread-eagle above his shoulders, then pinned him to the floor. But after...
...before invasion they had been encamped near a Ninth Air Force Station, and their presence was perceptible from afar: they had taken an oath at Christmas time not to bathe until Dday. They cooked their own meals over campfires, slept on the ground without blanket or tent. Familiarized with jujitsu and dirty-fighting tactics devised by thugs of all nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers who could lick them in hand-to-hand combat (barring knives, garrotes and guns). Among these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used...
...ground by his parachute. He fainted when he reported for duty, was operated on for an infection in his left leg, saw a major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping, running, tumbling and jujitsu tests, was hospitalized twice in two weeks, jumped with a charge of TNT and crawled five miles through the woods to blow up a deserted house...
...their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death...
...Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes the U.S.-Jap war. It is as savage as anything in the history of screen roughhouse. But as symbol, the result is rather ominous. Ryan finally punches the Jap to the floor, is last seen dying from the effects of indescribable Japanese torture. Taro...