Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeing the demonstrators must have wrenched the hundreds of people who were serious about hearing the candidate. The demonstrators had come early and taken the seats immediately surrounding the Bandstand, and that inner ring looked like the floor of the Democratic Convention, a sea of signs. The biggest was a bedsheet ten feet square that had been hoisted aloft right opposite the candidate's podium and read George Wallace Your Friendly Fascist...
After ten minutes, the chanting ring in Selma broke up; no one was hurt. But the incident was valuable as an indication. After it was over, as we sat together in the "house with the niggers," it began to seem comic, but the laughs were strained...
...that the Japanese are wild about the sport-even though it has lost some of its appeal since the good old days of 2,000 years ago when wrestlers fought to the death. Now they only try to throw an opponent down or force him outside a 15-ft. ring. To most foreigners, the spectacle of two near-naked, 300-lb. behemoths locked in a sweaty embrace, tugging mightily at each other's loincloths and grunting like rhinoceri, is about as exciting as a traffic jam. That makes it all the more astonishing that the two brightest stars currently...
Takamiyama's rise has been meteoric but arduous. Recruited by a sumo manager on a visit to Hawaii in 1964, he was persuaded to move to Japan and train for the ring. In Tokyo, he shivered through the cold, dank winter, struggling to learn the language and get accustomed to the unfamiliar food. All work and no poi made Takamiyama a dull boy. He dutifully performed an apprentice's chores, such as scrubbing senior wrestlers' backs, and spent long hours toughening his body by slamming against a wooden pillar...
...learn about technique, as his match with Taiho proved. Following sumo's ancient ritual, the two giants prepared for battle -rinsing their mouths with water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...