Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatize the point, a group of non-students including Savio established a Conscientous Objectors' table right next to the ROTC table. Fist fights broke out with fraternity hecklers, and 75 students responded by staging a sit-down. It was then that the Vice-Chancellor, Earl F. Cheit, dispatched nearly 100 sheriff's deputies and university police to arrest six non-students, among them Savio, for trespassing and creating a public disturbance. When students attempted to block the police bus carrying Savio and the five others away, three were arrested...
They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations...
...fourth quarter fist-fight which ended with cancelling 15-yard penalties climaxed the hard-fought defensive battle on muddy Soldier's Field...
...became Burma's premier politician; and tough, ascetic General Ne Win, chief of the Burmese army. The first Premier, U Nu, found things too much for him, voluntarily handed power over to Ne Win and the military in 1958. Within 17 months, Ne Win's mailed fist had put the government's house in order, and he chivalrously handed power back to a re-elected U Nu. Once again, U Nu proved too retiring for the task, and in 1962 Ne Win took over again, this time by outright coup. The general has been giving the orders...
Died. Harold Talburt, 71, chief editorial cartoonist of Scripps-Howard Newspapers from 1922 to 1963, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his "The Light of Asia" (a fist labeled Japan grasping a torch of burning peace treaties), but is best remembered for his "John Q. Public,"a poor soul reduced to wearing a barrel after paying his taxes; of cancer; in Bethesda...