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Word: fisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grants are announced in the administration's Gazette). As reported in the 29 January Crimson, Samuel P. Huntington of that same Government Department that gave the bourgeoisie Daniel P. Moynihan and Henry Kissinger, is in the running for Peanut King Carter's team as a member of the armed fist of U.S. imperialism, the Department of Defense. Huntington was the author of the infamous "forced draft urbanization" theory used as a justification for the massive bombing campaign which decimated the Vietnamese countryside and slaughtered thousands of civilians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The NSA And Harvard | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage by hooking up electric eels; Wong Chop, a Chinatown connection; and, inevitably, a girl named Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Ends Meet | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Hays was forced to resign after the disclosure that he kept bosomy Elizabeth Ray on the Government payroll. Burton lost some support. Though Burton insists, "Tip and I will work very well together," the two men are often at odds; twice, Burton has challenged O'Neill to a fist fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Scramble for Power on Capitol Hill | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...vesque frequently displays a fierce temper. In one encounter with hydro executives, he slammed his fist through a glass desktop. What Lévesque's fellow Liberals found even more unsettling was his increasingly outspoken contempt for Canada's federal system. Said Lévesque: "I am first a Québécois and secondly-with rather growing doubt -a Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Broadcaster with Itchy Feet | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...dealings and triple betrayals. It is lavishly mounted and loaded with flash. The movie also offers Dustin Hoffman, giving one of his best performances, up against Laurence Olivier, who is in fine form playing an archvillain. Watching Marathon Man is a little like getting crowned by a chain-mail fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead Heat | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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