Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mailed fist inaugurated at Belgrade is no surprise to Italians. Centuries-old hatreds are pointed against us. We shall wait until developments mature. We shall examine our position for any eventuality...
...babble of voices grew excited, acrimonious. Fac^s grew red. Suddenly the State Senator clenched his fist and swung at the Governor. The Governor careened against the wall. Before he could retaliate, his secretary jumped at him, pinioned his arms. Most of the flushed group at once took sides, shouted and pummeled each other. Police were called, but when they arrived the scuffle had subsided to a murmurous discussion...
Though his student audience began to mutter at such blanket flaying of all Chinese, forthright, Marshal Feng pressed straight on with his speech, smashing home each point with a sounding fist blow upon the rostrum...
...that time, thousands of Confederate bonds were daily bought and sold on the London stock exchange. Mouth watering, Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before...
...that the Son-of-Ivan does not even now fully realize what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...