Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department as a U. S. delegate to the International Union of Cities Convention in Lyons, France, and Secretary Howard P. Jones of the National Municipal League. When they failed to salute the Nazi swastika, a Storm Trooper broke ranks and rushed up to them with doubled fist...
...present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain" for a cool $70,000. According to a Heimwehr manifesto, "If the Government fails to make its fist felt by the all-powerful Director Apold of Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, all the Government's efforts against the Nazis in Styria will prove vain...
...charter from the New York Legislature but there is no record of his visiting Panama during the construction of the line. The California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed in 1869. Aspinwall had the coast-to-coast carrying service in his fist. In 1934 Great-Uncle William might have had some difficulty reconciling his profitable business to the Social Democratic ideas of Grandnephew Franklin...
...Just what would be the result if Max Baer would smash a bull, or even a cow, in the middle of the forehead with his bare fist, using every ounce of strength he possessed? Did Dempsey ever engage in similar fisticuffs with any similar animal, and what was the outcome? And the same for John L. Sullivan. I have one friend who says the animal would die, whether from the blow or old age I do not know. Another says the animal would be rendered unconscious. Still another insists that the animal would be bowled over, at least knocked...
...showed him my notes. He seized them, balled them up in his fist, tossed them on the floor. . . . Next came the preliminary to the 'works.' I may say that this consists in shoving the intended victim around with the open hand until he becomes so irritated that he strikes a police officer. . . . I permitted one hearty shove to seat me in a chair...