Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the race got underway, tempers flared. Motorcycle cops patrolled the course, broke up fist fights among rivals who crashed into each other. Nineteen drivers suffered slight injuries. Two youngsters craftily painted the same number on two cars, with the intention of letting one take over from the other at the halfway mark. Their strategy miscarried when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys...
Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...
...dangers of not driving carefully are dramatically demonstrated to the student salesman by a little red toy wagon driven by a male doll which carelessly smashes the wagon against a stone (the instruction book thoroughly lists, among the required props, "one stone about half the size of your fist"). The point: "Because he didn't take proper care of his little red wagon, Juan was out of business" (PAUSE BRIEFLY AND LOOK AT MEN SO AS TO ALLOW POINT TO SINK...
...Clenched Fists. As the crowd came up, half a dozen sailors watched glumly from the Pozharsky's deck. Two of them planted themselves in warning at the head of the gangplank. Most of the women stopped singing, but Palmira, undiscouraged, waved her carnations and shouted, "Tovarish, Tovarish, Tovarish Stalin." The Russians continued to stare blankly and, for a moment, her voice began to break. Then she beamed and raised her arm in the clenched fist salute. At last the Russians answered. They raised their right arms-with hands held open. "No, no," howled Palmira's followers...
...Russian captain was the first to understand and close his fist in the Communist salute. The other Russians quickly followed his example. Then a man in blue overalls came down the gangplank, walked up to Palmira and took her flowers. But when she asked with gestures if the women could board the Pozharsky, he waved a negative hand and hurried back to the ship. He carried Palmira's carnations head down. After a while the women quietly left the dockyards...