Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destruction, flint-faced firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...
...hawk arrived in a sack from Germany, White caught him by the leather jesses tied to his feet, and set him on his gloved fist. "For an instant he stared upon me with a mad, marigold or dandelion eye, all his plumage flat to the body and his head crouched like a snake's in fear or hatred, then bated wildly from the fist." Upside down he hung, by his jesses, screaming his rage...
From that moment, it was hawk or man. When White gently lifted Gos back to fist, he bated again. All night long Gos bated and Whits lifted him back. How long would it go on? Until White's patience cracked, or he fell asleep-in which case, the hawk-masters had assured him, the hawk would know that he was the stronger, and would die rather than be tamed-or until the hawk himself fell asleep on the fist. White knew that hawks sometimes held out for as long as nine days...
Face Saved. Next, Vissering went into direct competition with his rival, Jaccoponi. He set up his own stevedoring company. The nub was 25 resolute anti-Jaccoponi dockers, all of them fast men with a fist or a bale-hook. Under protection of Italian-not American-soldiers, they unloaded two ships. Restless rank & filers in the Red union, with nothing to do but 'watch, began nudging their leaders. Thereupon Jaccoponi, to save his face, put on his businessman's hat, made a deal with Vissering: Jaccoponi would set up a subsidiary to his monopoly to handle the U.S. Army...
...wall in the office. Pictures of Ike, in well-tailored civics, in a cap and gown, and in uniform, provide the only decorations in the rooms. One three by five foot picture shows his head alone, smiling at a misplaced water cooler, his molars half as big as a fist...