Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...
...wife and mother in her youth, Cousin Julia switched to male attire and a career as a political goon for Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44). To terrorize the opposition, she backed her broad fist with a muscled 240 Lbs. on a 6-ft. frame. In 1957, when Ydígoras made his turbulent campaign for the presidency, Cousin Julia led his street-demonstration gangs. With his victory, she hit the big time. In dinner jacket, she turned up at diplomatic functions with her attractive, fur-clad roommate, Carmen Gandara, 26. Julia first got a job bossing all public purchases, then...
...Committee. Homely (to an opponent who accused him of being two-faced, Cannon once replied: "My God, if I had another face don't you think I'd use it?"), hunched (5 ft. 7 in., 142 Ibs.) Clarence Cannon is perhaps the House's most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week...
...legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked up into thousands of fist-size pieces-remarkably enough, the first B58 crash since the 1,500-m.p.h. bombers were unveiled two years...
...flamboyant gracelessness. Several nearby country clubs, whose premises have been rented for large Club dinners, have furiously prohibited the Club from ever returning, so vast was the damage in shattered glass and splintered wood. And returning from one of these extravaganzas last year, one Club member carefully aimed a fist at a fellow member only to lay flat a punchee when his drunken blow went astray...