Word: yokozuna
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning the 48 tricks & dodges of Japanese wrestling, or Sumo.* In a 12-ft. ring a Japanese wrestler grunts through a brief career of trying to squash his opponent into submission. If he becomes a yokozuna (champion) he may tie a piece of straw rope around his waist and consort with the highest personages, but even for the yokozuna pay is small, consisting mostly of patrons' contributions and roast pigs and bottles of sake sent by admirers. Soon the wrestler has his hair cut, retires...