Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Apted, head of the Yard police, thought he had a clue several days ago when it was announced that a fist fight had occurred on the Longfellow bridge shortly before the reported drowning. But the man who saw the fight cannot be found or can any concrete evidence be uncovered...
...tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane hit the island...
...John M. Fewkes, 38, to defy the Board of Education. Informing the audience that a board stenographer was taking notes, he shouted: 'T hope they get an earful." He proceeded to pledge the new union to drive the "spoils system" out of Chicago's schools. Shaking his fist, he cried: ''Let them fire...
Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
...Second, many Ontarians believe that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that C. I. O. agents be excluded from Canada as "foreign agitators," Ontario's Premier smells an opportunity to attract to himself nationwide support...