Word: yoda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty young accountant named Ikoku Yoda last week won the 80-meter hurdles in Japan's eastern regional industrial championship in a sensational 10.8 seconds, only .3 of a second off the world record. Ikoku Yoda was only the top star of an extraordinary team that has become one of Japan's greatest advertising attractions. Before the two-day meet was over, almost all the track and field championships had been won by 70-odd athletes from a single company: Tokyo's Riccar Sewing Machine Co., Japan^s biggest sewing machine maker...
...company-sponsored after-hours sports program, and the top 100 or so athletes are housed in special dormitories and given practicing hours off with pay. Barring upsets and injuries, Riccar will contribute 14 athletes to Japan's team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo this fall, and Hurdler Yoda stands the best chance of any Japanese athlete to win Japan's first postwar gold medal in track...
...hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When he wants to get in trouble, he unfortunately has a buddy: an industrious Nisei (Yoshio Yoda) who labors day and night to "indoctrinate" every native girl on the island. And when he wants to get out of trouble, he unfortunately has a shocking-pink colonel (Charles McGraw) who turns purple every time the hero appears...