Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer came in response to a plea by Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci when the city's fist choice for the temporary classrooms, the Sacred Heart School in East Cambridge, came under opposition from members of the community who believe that the relocation would add to the congestion in that area...
...juror. But the evidence patiently brought out by Prosecutor James L. Browning Jr. led them to believe that Patty was lying, despite the efforts of Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey and his staff. There was the photograph of Patty on the day of her arrest, defiantly flashing the clenched fist signal of the revolutionary. There was the testimony of Zigurd Berzins, the electronics technician who said he saw Patty retrieve two dropped ammunition clips and one or two cartridges for her carbine as she entered the Hibernia Bank-an act that conflicted with her testimony that she was carrying...
...Kissinger thought he had finished. But the President did not rise. He was weeping. And then, still sobbing, Nixon leaned over, striking his fist on the carpet, crying, 'What have I done? What has happened...
After Patty was captured, her signing into jail as an "urban guerrilla" and giving a clenched-fist salute were symptomatic of her condition. There is, said West, a kind of "hanging on for a few days until you're really sure you are not in dangerous territory...
...really don't remember," Patty replied. For the first time during that session, she began to cry, wiping the tears away with a tissue she kept clenched in her fist...