Word: smashingly
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...gods must be smiling. Japan's national sport, which began as an ancient form of religious worship, is muscling its way around the modern world. Today the grand champion of Japan hails from Mongolia, and as U.S. team coach Yoshisada Yonezuka puts it, "Big guys smash into each other" in sumo rings from Poland to Brazil. Elite-level sumo came to the U.S. for the first time in 20 years with a tournament this month in Las Vegas. Now there's the Sumo Ultimate Masters Organization (S.U.M.O.), a new U.S.-based league with global aspirations and the backing...
...social skills, on the other hand, rapidly receded. Beethoven squabbled with his friends, and he tried to smash the head of one of his noble patrons with a chair. Fortunately for him, the aristocracy was forgiving. They gave him a generous stipend that plunged in value after the occupation and departure of French soldiers in 1809. That year, his prodigious works slowed to a trickle after he fell for a banker’s wife, Antonie Bretano, whom he referred to as “my Immortal Beloved...
...pass to sophomore receiver Joe Murt got them closer, but another O’Hagan scramble—this time for 12 yards—broke within the Brown five-yard line, setting up junior tailback Clifton Dawson for a short smash-mouth touchdown and sophomore kicker Matt Schindel for the game-tying...
Neither man would give in, so the crowd roared for the fighters to smash each other again: more kicks, punches, stomps, knees and elbows. They obliged. When they got too tired to fight, they would grab each other and crash to the mat of the octagonal ring, grappling, twisting like strange action figures, pressing against the cage's netting. Then they would be back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required...
...different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls one-of-a-kind products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven is a smash in Japan, even though it is small and retails for nearly...