Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles de Gaulle's face flushed. A huge fist crashed down on the table. "I," he stormed, "was France. I was the state, the government. I spoke in the name of France. I was the independence and sovereignty of France . . . That is why everybody obeyed me!" Toward the back of the room, he barked out: "Don't ask me any more questions like that...
...ceremonies, a glowering, hostile crowd surrounded Laniel and Pleven. Gaullist hooligans lunged at them, shouting: "Resign! Resign!" Leaflets showered down: "They fired Juin today, will they arrest De Gaulle tomorrow?" A man shook his fist in the Defense Minister's face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet one of my men. My man knocked the bayonet aside, then he hit the Viet with his fist. He knocked him down. Then he dropped a grenade on him so he wouldn't get up." The legionnaires get through to Gabrielle but cannot stay there. For the price of 1,500 enemy dead, the French give up Gabrielle...
...never worked. Perennially there is some minor riot; this year there was a serious injury. Instead of Good Fellowship, sharp fist fights break out as clique rubs elbow with clique. And records of past springs shown no evidence that the Smoker stops the class from other, less organized, rioting...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...