Word: nishimoto
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...well-shaded home on a quiet Cambridge-street, two soft spoken men direct the class work of the Nishimoto Style School of Judo. Each Wednesday night, amid a flurry of rising feet and falling bodies, they smile proudly at their more advanced students. There is some difficulty in distinguishing teacher from student. Generally, however, the student is larger and lands with a louder thud...
Although force is Leo's forte, the Nishimoto style emphasizes the importance of balance, leverage, and pressure points. The Thursday night students know twenty throws from the hip and many others over the shoulder. The flips look deceptively easy. When one prospective student claimed the victims were helping, he was invited to remove his shoes and resist. In two seconds the instructor had the skeptic head down, feet up; the boy's wallet, comb, and socks were scattered over the ground. When he returned to earth he reassembled himself, mumbled, "It works," and left...
...another." Another victim crawled 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...
Walking PX. In Sendai, Japan, officials charged baggageless Shoji Nishimoto with illegal possession of U.S. goods when they found cached on his person: one extra pair of trousers, two shirts, one sweater, one mackinaw, one mirror, one bath towel, a complete shaving set, one Navy flashlight, twelve packs of cigarets, 28 cans, packages and bars of candy and food...
Died: Mine. Ben Nishimoto, 103, Kyushu Island, Japan. Her funeral was attended by 93 of her direct descendants; five children, 19 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren, 12 great-great-grandchildren...
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