Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches the mat...
...There's plenty of room for everybody," assorted head track coach Jaakko Mikkola yesterday as he dusted off the Freshman welcome mat outside Briggs Cage Naturally, like any good coach, the Varsity mentor was speaking with one eye on the incoming Freshman tide, waiting expectantly to see what it would wash up in the way of track material...
...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
Author Roberts finally pins Lear to the mat as one of the culprits in our "disgraceful as well as heroic" Tripolitan War. To do so he follows Lear from Haiti to the Mediterranean, dragging Albion and Lydia along to make love on the way. Albion reaches Haiti, finds Lydia not dead from yellow fever at all, and as pretty as her picture. He also finds Napoleon's troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish...
...Washington studio, the décor is pinball-palace modern, badly beat up. The carpet is worn through, the stained orange velveteen seats are mostly out of whack. Cigaret butts smaller than a little fingernail mat the floor, and through the thick smoke appear big wall signs: "No Smoking." No self-respecting Frenchman would let such a challenge pass, and almost everybody (except babes in arms, of whom there were several) puffs away industriously...