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Word: fisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody paid the slightest attention. A swarthy young (30) Communist from Sicily, Luigi di Mauro, slipped through the melee, cocked his fist, was set to throw a haymaker against Italy's motionless Premier when another huge fist, belonging to Labor Minister Achille Marazza, appeared from nowhere and knocked him flat. In frustrated rage, Comrade Di Mauro bit Marazza's thumb to the bone. Meanwhile, Comrade Togliatti had prudently retreated to the corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Brawl | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn't have been so conspicuous, but he stuck it right out straight, like a pointer...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

...Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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