Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waiting." In Paris, the Tunisian trouble provided the first governmental test for France's untried Premier Edgar Faure. After heavy debate, he won a vote from the French Assembly in support of his plan to give Tunisia "neither a policy of abandonment nor a fist on the table." But the confidence was not reflected in Tunisia. "He uses vague language," said Habib Bourguiba, "so all the parties will find what they want. If there is no outside pressure, there will never be progress. The French colonists are always stronger than the French government. The agitation will keep on until...
...word of honor, respect womanhood and fight at the drop of a line of dialogue. When Gable and Crawford clash at the barricades before the Texas senate, mass slaughter breaks out. Then, at a word from the revered Houston (Moroni Olsen), the two leaders settle the issue in a fist fight, the ground suddenly clears of casualties, and both sides go off to fight the Mexicans...
Preventive War. In Miami, Stanley Decker went to a party given by the American Airmotive Corp., got roaring drunk, tangled in five fist fights, was led off by three cops, drew a $10 fine, explained to the judge: "I was there to keep the other guests from acting the way I did. I'm a private detective...
Standing before the fireplace in his Washington home one night last week, big Theron Lamar Caudle was not his jovial self. He shifted nervously from foot to foot, and smacked a clenched fist again & again into the open palm of his hand. Reporters were filing into the house to hear what Caudle, chief of the Justice Department's tax division, had to say in defense of himself...
...When pickets under William Z. Foster-then an A.F.L. organizer, now the top U.S. Communist-tried to close down the plant to organize it, Fairless decided that the best way to break up the picketing was to start a fight, and get the pickets arrested. Cursing and swinging his fist, he led the assault. The plan failed, but the pickets quit anyway. Years later, Fairless met a strike in another way. Although Griffiths, under pressure from other businessmen and churchmen, wanted to settle, Fairless brought in 500 strikebreakers and broke the strike...