Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last speaker, Rap Brown, brought the rally to a high pitch with his last statement. Pounding his fist, he shouted, "Ours is not to do or die, ours is but to reason why: Hell...
Growling on Up. The Israeli plan of battle was elegant in its simplicity. A single mailed fist of tanks and armor-borne troops would smash straight up into all the defenses in one concentrated attack. Once the fist had punched through, at whatever terrible cost, reinforcements would pour behind it to spill out in back of the enemy and flank him on his own high ground...
...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raucous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
...Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family. And if I didn't give him 50 centavos once in a while, he wouldn't let me park near the intersection waiting for passengers. He gets something. I get something. How can you call that corruption...
...over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat and screaming 'Ya blind bum, ya!' at the top of her lungs." They were some lungs even then. Ethel's last name was Merman. Says Bus: "I sailed away from there just as fast as I could." As it turned...