Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time, the man from Channel 5 has arrived. He and the photo man get together and decide that they want Paul to stand on a pew in view of many of the antiwar posters that adorn the sanctuary. "Right, that's good. Hey, Paul, let's stick that fist up. Right, higher, higher, a bit higher, really high. Great, that's good." The lights from the television make Paul squint and suddenly the quietly eloquent pacifist whose faith in people is innocent but not naive is transformed into some kind of squinty, fist-raised freak...
Pounding his fist on the table, he intoned, "We're going to employ every force of law that we have under our authority. . . . We are going to employ every weapon possible. . . . You cannot continue to set fires to buildings that are worth five to ten million dollars [the ROTC building was valued at about $50,000] . . . . These people just move from one campus to another and terrorize a community. They're worse than the brown shirts and the Communist element and also the night riders in the vigilantes [sic]. They're the worst type of people that we harbor...
Under Frieda's compassionate influence, the home became a haven for Depression drifters down on their luck, but for Tom it was also a feudal castle to be ruled with a shillelagh fist. Philip ascribes his rebelliousness to resentment of his tyrannical father. Daniel traces his to the year when a stingy aunt took over the household while his mother was recovering from tuberculosis. "She actually starved us," he still says in some bewilderment...
Palmer Page, Penn's number-one squash player, is an emotional person. Harvard fans learned that last spring when Page, and his team, lost to the Crimson in Cambridge. During his match with Larry Terrell, Page repeatedly smashed his fist against the wall, displaying a broad vocabulary, threw his recquet at the front wall once, and growled over and over again, "nice shot, Larry...
...tractable from intractable men, a key step toward rehabilitation. The big numbers pit a minority against a majority, the guards against the prisoners. Obsessed with "control," guards try to keep inmates divided, often by using the strong to cow the weak. The result is an inmate culture, enforced by fist or knife, that spurs passivity and destroys character...