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Word: mune (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...explore the deeps under better control, and as he charged around Lausanne, Switzerland, this year, he looked, at 78, hardly more scrawny than when he first climbed into the stratosphere 30 years before. Death had brushed close to him so many times that the wonderful professor seemed im mune. But last week the only man to break both depth and altitude records died at home of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Wonderful Professor | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Just 8 min. and 12 sec. later, after a makikomi-harai-goshi (wraparound sweeping hip throw), an okuri-ashi-harai (sweeping ankle throw) and a mune-gatame (chest hold), the Japanese lay exhausted on the tat ami (straw mat). The tall Dutchman towered over him in triumph. It was the most humiliating blow to Japanese pride since the Marianas turkey shoot, the Pacific air battle that polished off the remnants of Japanese air power in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tradition Unbound | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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