Search Details

Word: masumi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...addition to his 200-m bronze last year, Suetsugu took a surprise silver in the 100-m at a Grand Prix meet in Zagreb in June, ahead of England's Darren Campbell, the world bronze medalist. Nanba is employed by athletes in other sports: veteran Yomiuri Giants pitcher Masumi Kuwata used the technique to come back from an injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Away | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. MASUMI HAYASHI, 41, former insurance saleswoman; to death for killing four people and sickening 63 others after serving arsenic-laced curry to her neighbors at a summer festival in western Japan following a heated dispute in 1998; in Wakayama. Dubbed by the tabloids as the "the poison woman of the era," Hayashi sparked off a wave of copycat poisonings throughout the country. Hayashi pleaded innocent, though arsenic collected in and around her home matched that found in the curry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

Having watched some of their top pitchers go West, Japanese fans are fearful that Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Yokohama Bay Stars, or Masumi Kuwata of the Yomiuri Giants, or maybe even a non-pitcher like Hideki Matsui, power hitter from the Tokyo Giants, will be next. Who else will follow Nomo? "To play in the major leagues is still the stuff dreams are made on," says Ikeda, paraphrasing The Tempest. If he and Valentine are right, then Irabu has the stuff championships are made on. And the tempest started by the Tornado could help turn the World Series into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASEBALL: PLENTY MORE AFTER HIDEO NOMO | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

This plan bears a wilting resemblance to the Petroleum Consumption Curtailment Countermeasures adopted last March in Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!) | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

| 1 |