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Word: fisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merle Haggard into the tapedeck, pound your fist and sing along: "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to wed thee." For some reason you start thinking about your girlfriend's neck. You've been singing along, having a good ole time, then you start to cry just thinking about your girlfriend's neck. "Her neck," you sob, flipping on the wipers. "Oh, man! I miss her...lousy...n-neck...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...Washington Redskins-Cincinnati Bengals football game. The recipients had only to show up for a pregame brunch at the Washington Convention Center. A wary reader, though, might have noticed that the sponsor, "Flagship International Sports Television, Inc.," had the same initials as the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) of the U.S. Marshals Service. The guest list, it turned out, consisted of 3,000 Washington-area fugitives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Sting: U.S. Marshals 98, Crooks 0 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...videotapes of the Redskins' 1983 Super Bowl victory. Deputy Marshal Louis McKinney, wearing top hat and tails, greeted the guests, then announced: "We have one big surprise for you. You're all under arrest." The stunned revelers were handcuffed, then jailed, the latest victims of a series of stings FIST has used to catch crooks from scofflaws to hardened felons. Yield from the Redskins ruse: 37 fugitives sought for parole and probation violations, and 61 others wanted for such offenses as armed robbery, narcotics violations and embezzlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Sting: U.S. Marshals 98, Crooks 0 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...nobody gettin' on no plane til I'm goin' to Norfolk!" He yelled, slamming his fist against the door...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Thanks for the Blues | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...investigation was sparked by problems surrounding the use of 38 Macintoshes located in the Science Center basement. Following a fist fight and several confrontations last year between students who needed the computers for classes and students using them for papers, the computers were placed off limits to word processing students...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Computer Access Under Study | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

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