Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHRASE] My Left Fist...
...February the killing begins as Islamists, believing they were cheated out of power, attack soldiers and police. Clashes spread when the military responds with an iron fist...
...attorney Parker is searching and painfully revealing. Nelson seeks common cause with all black women, whom she sees as suffering from a collective case of "invisibility and erasure"; Parker strives to delineate individuals, appreciating the "thousands of moments that [make] us fundamentally different from each other." Nelson remonstrates, with fist-in-the-air rhetoric leavened by wry humor; Parker demonstrates, depicting each moment with searing clarity...
...recall sneering under my breath and shaking my fist at the screen, squelching the urge to spit in disgust. The American people should be so lucky that they worry about universal access to something called the Internet. This was coming from an administration that had failed to feed its poor or house its veterans. The prospect of the Web in West Virginia and the Usenet in Utah seemed like the classic tactic of bread and circus, only without enough bread to go around...
...again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful thing!" he exults. Blaine leaves the restaurant triumphant: "That was a real movie-star reaction...