Word: sumo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sumo Wrestling, ESPN...
...said she was insulted while checking in for her flight here. "Two airline people told me if they weren't able to get everyone on, I'd have to buy another seat." Charles Van Dyke, 46, a Southern Californian--who estimates his weight at 600 lbs., judging by a sumo wrestler roughly his size--nodded understandingly...
...first time in many years, there was some zest in Springfest. Attempting to make up for the lack of a big name band, the Undergraduate Council provided students with enjoyable games, such as sumo wrestling, jousting and dunking pools...
...Special Events Committee, which is part ofDuke's Student Union, usually pays a company tobring in a game like student sumo-wrestling orjoust, and then has two or three local bands playin the Residential Quad in the afternoon, Strausssays...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...