Word: sumo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took over two principal bastions of Caucasian (haole in Hawaiian) power and status. George Ariyoshi was elected the state's Governor, and Fujio ("Fudge") Matsuda was appointed president of the University of Hawaii. Both men are nisei, or second-generation Americans; Ariyoshi's father had been a sumo wrestler in Japan. Today only two non-A.J.A.s hold major elective offices in Hawaii: U.S. Senator Hiram Fong, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, an Italian American. A rundown of other important Hawaiian politicians reads like an A.J.A. Who's Who: U.S. Senator...
...fought my way as close as I could, jumping up and down the back of an enormous Sumo wrestler type from Malden so I could at least catch an occasional, deodorized glimpse of the action as seen over the Sumo wrestler's armpits. By now, the situation had become impossible. The rain was falling even harder, and thousands of water-logged golf fans who had neither seen nor heard of Regalado 30 minutes earlier were cheering wildly, as if he had at last consummated Montezuma's revenge. My prediction had been correct: the 17th had been the decisive hole...
...mock scrimmage, a small, chunky back grinds his way up the middle like a reckless sumo wrestler. He doesn't cut to dodge a man. He runs over...
Rosovsky's close personal interest in Japan is a result of 20 years of scholarship, five of which were spent in residence in Asia. In his office, he displays an eighteenth-century map of Japan and an 1860 drawing of the aal-time great Sumo wrestlers...
Died. Tamanoumi, 27, one of two reigning grand champions in the ancient and immensely popular Japanese sport of sumo (wrestling); of a heart attack following an appendectomy; in Tokyo. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 297 Ibs., Tamanoumi (a self-given nom de guerre meaning "Sea of Gems") was often dwarfed by the behemoths who dominate sumo. He suffered frequent injuries as he climbed to the top, but always recovered; "I am like a phoenix," he often said. His dazzlingly cunning techniques in the ring wowed sumo aficionados time and again. When out of combat, he was a swinging celebrity...