Word: fistedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For more than a decade Schlesinger was at the center of the nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was...
Ironic in Nicaragua's case is that the U.S. participated in negotiations felling the government it had carefully planted there in 1934. That year, as U.S. Marine boats reluctantly pulled away from Mosquito Coast after 25 years of virtual control in the area, a U.S.-educated National Guard remained. That...
His predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined...
"We all get the opportunity to get away from the minnows, we get a pop to go after the oysters. But you've got to go out after it," he said. McGuire was also realistic, acknowledging sports are not "an end in themselves." He said sports "are like dolls," and...
Whether or not the shooting is resumed, the battle of words between the inimical neighbors apparently will continue. Hanoi offered new allegations of Chinese troop atrocities, including such barbarities as eye-gouging and disemboweling pregnant women. If anything, the clumsiness of Hanoi's propaganda was more than matched by...