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Word: fisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of bowing before MTV's shiny-suit-ridden, treble-enhanced Jam of the Week, I pit myself against the MC I have yet to meet through lyrics saturated with wordplay and allusions and urban imagery and political consciousness. I pump my fist when a colleague on stage instructs me to, roam sidewalks with a perennially playing walkman, love few things more than a huddle of cats dropping science to beatboxes and split cheap cigars open while listening to my newly-purchased Roots album (by the way, buy it now, it's truly ridiculous...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...other nine men on the floor are exchanging gibes and handshakes around the tip-off circle, the Harvard men's basketball team's senior point guard stands 20 feet back at his own free-throw line, one fist raised...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best Ever? | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

Pilgrim pounds the wall with his fist. "We needcameras like that!" he says as Haynes manipulatesthe controls to zero in on the offender...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Stores Beef Up Theft Control Methods | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...roots. "Tom came from a hard place, and he remembers that," says Brian Grazer, producer of Splash and Apollo 13. The two men used to live near each other in a gated community on the Pacific. "I remember Tom sitting on the beach, holding the sand tight in his fist and saying, 'I can't believe this is my place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...VILA on an airline flight is seeking $127,000 from the world's most famous handyman for pain and mental anguish. Carol Berger claims that Vila, host of Home Again, took a break from pounding dry wall to pound the back of her seat with his foot and fist during a flight from Denver to Eugene, Ore. She didn't mention why. Vila issued a statement calling the allegation "baseless" and says he has never met Berger. Maybe he was just annoyed that her seat and tray table were not in a fully upright position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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