Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dublin, in fact, the British deported, him for his enthusiastic involvement in the Irish revolution. But that was long ago, and during the recent campaign his foes hinted that he was becoming senile. "Those who say that I am old," replied Giri, "let them have the benefit of my fist...
...prepared speech to shout back at us. He promised to "do everything in my power to end the war if you elect me President." I had been in the first row and I was sure that Humphrey had looked at me during the yelling and had seen my clenched fist and work shirt with rolled-up sleeves. I was sure that I could see that that day, Humphrey had turned against the war. I was wrong...
Around the globe, others shared America's enthusiasm. In Paris, emergency electrical generators were turned on to keep TV tubes glowing through the night. In a crowded bar on Rome's Corso di Francia, one Italian disparaged the Apollo achievement-and was clobbered in a fist-swinging, bottle-throwing brawl. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito canceled a botanical outing in the woods to watch TV. In Germany and in Uruguay, police reported a sharp drop in crime while Eagle was resting on the moon. Said a West Berlin police sergeant: "I wish there were moon landings every night...
...with small groups and individuals. Their reception has been cool, if not hostile; most of the industrial workers have no patience with revolutionary jargon and little sympathy for comparatively privileged college students who spout it. The president of the Brewery Workers Union, Karl F. Feller, says: "A well-placed fist could be the welcome that awaits S.D.S. revolutionaries," and a Chicago United Automobile Workers' spokesman says, "Those kids couldn't organize their way out of a paper...
Perhaps the freshest play is Ptakovina, by Milan Kundera, who is one of those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...