Word: fistedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEEKING DIVORCE. Sasha Stallone, 33, from Sylvester Stallone, 38, the celluloid heavyweight of Rocky I, II and III and two-fisted star of numerous other movie thrillers; after ten years of marriage; in Los Angeles. She filed for a divorce once before, in 1978. Later the couple reconciled.
We are supposed to be the tight-fisted party that wants to balance the budget. So we put a balanced-budget provision in the platform, but then we proceed to spend $75 billion to $100 billion in tax breaks. The same people who are talking about a flat tax to...
William Boyd's leading men tend to be ham-fisted brutes in a state of eternal frustration. Their weighty (245 Ibs.) prototype is Morgan Leafy, the splenetic diplomat at the center of Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa. That account of coming of age in...
PRESSED FOR an explanation, an Army spokesman defended that service's open-fisted approach to choosing awards by saying they are "a valuable and effective leadership tool to build unit morale and esprit."
Andropov altered the stereotype of the ham-fisted Soviet spy in the ill-fitting suit by encouraging KGB recruiters to go after the best that the Soviet academic world had to offer. KGB foreign agents grew more adept at pilfering high technology and stepped up efforts to spread Moscow'...