Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condemned men-David Moise, 25, Johannes Shabangu, 26, and Anthony Tsotsobe, 25-responded to the sentence with forced smiles, a clenched-fist salute and the first strains of a freedom song ("What shall we do to the Boers who shot the people of Soweto?"). Outside, police, occasionally using attack dogs, dispersed a crowd of blacks waiting in Church Square. There were scuffles, and several people were arrested. A small group of women, swathed in brightly patterned blankets, began singing Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the ANC's anthem...
...Shakespeare Brothers do a funny schtick about being interviewed. "How much money do you make; what are your goals, and did you go to school to learn that?" Aveson asks his empty fist in a passable Walter Cronkite imitation. In fact, the money can be surprisingly good. Well-known acts that draw big crowds can pull $75 on a good evening. But like most of their colleagues, Aveson and Krulick are ambivalent about commercial success and long-term aspirations, preferring to talk about their present work. "This is a full-time job," says Aveson, "We're commited to street performing...
Toledo baseball has its own, local stamp, and it is also distinctly minor league. Absent are the fist fights, but also missing are the hair-raising screams and cheers. A pair of back-to-back Toledo home runs in Saturday's second inning brought about a dozen people to their feet. There's no electronic scoreboard. And the field is parched...
...weapon. Some hold the dark theory that the U.S. used it against Japan in order to intimidate the Soviets, but clearly its central mission was to win and end a war. After that, however, the bomb became an instrument of policy rather than deed-a great cocked fist that would show off its power in tests from time to time, but otherwise remain immobile and silent, looming ever larger in the world's imagination. In a sense, the world's imagination became its accomplice. For 36 years the mere thought of the bomb has shaped and troubled international...
Most of the 4,000 men and women from 23 countries boarding planes bound for Israel carried an oddly shaped parcel. As airport security guards soon discovered, the packages contained rocks, some as small as a fist, some the size of a tombstone, all inscribed with the names of victims of Hitler's massacre of European Jewry. The passengers were Holocaust survivors and their children, headed for an unprecedented four-day meeting in Jerusalem, where their stones will be used to build a memorial for the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. Explained Auschwitz...