Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main doors of James Madison High School chanting "We want the Niggers, we want the Niggers." Armed with sticks, rocks and fragments of glass, they waited for the black students in the school to leave the building. The police, who were called to the school earlier that morning when fist fights between black and white students erupted in the halls, forced the crowd to move on down the block so that the black students could leave the building safely. After the white crowd moved out of sight, the black students quickly headed for the local trains on which they would...
...ultimately strangle all of them. Every time another black is knifed in a ghetto school, another black parent ships his child off to Madison. Every time a black freshman fights back in hatred of the alien atmosphere at Madison, a white student goes home wounded. Every time a white fist hits a black jaw, another "For Sale" sign crops up. And every time a place like Madison turns from a school into a prison, enrollment swells in another suburban school...
...Fist Banging. Desperately, Agnew went back to the tactic that he had first tried and then abandoned: working out a deal with the Justice Department under which he would be accused of a relatively minor charge if he agreed to resign. Known as "plea bargaining"-or, less elegantly, "copping a plea"-the practice is commonly used in all courts. The prosecution settles for a sure conviction rather than going to the trouble or expense of proving a more ambitious- and time-consuming-case in court...
...carpeted room just outside Richardson's office, the bargaining sessions were long and heated, the men often shouting at each other as they maneuvered for a settlement. Even Richardson, a very proper Bostonian who normally keeps himself under control, raised his voice several times and twice banged his fist down on the table...
Onstage, Moon sells his ideas like a tub-thumping evangelist, slapping his fist into his hand to make a point, belting out his words in enthusiastic Korean, which an aide quickly translates. After two decades of such evangelizing, Moon's church and its affiliates (One World Crusade and the Freedom Leadership Foundation, among others) seem to be just hitting their stride. Although orthodox Christians recoil from Moon's teachings, the Moonists claim 600,000 followers worldwide, with perhaps 100,000 "core members" who are willing to give up their personal lives entirely to work for the master...