Word: fistedness
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The Oldroyds, from old William who was murdered by Luddites in 1812, to young David who resolves to recoup the family fortunes in 1931, represent the close-fisted, passionate hard-riding Tory lot who owned mills. The Bamforths, illegitimately conceived by young Will Oldroyd in 1812, are, as one might...
The hulking, ham-fisted persons who now & then take George V's crown & sceptre from the Tower of London and always put them back are unofficially "Beefeaters," officially the Yeomen of the Guard.
Part of the Nicaraguan Press again hailed leather-necked, two-fisted U. S. Marines as "incorruptible" last week, as they again supervised a Nicaraguan presidential election, their second.
Rampant on Lake Balkhazh's brim last week was John C. Calder, the tall, two-fisted, blue-swearing U. S. engineer who drove, argued and pleaded Stalingrad's famed Tractorstroy into successful operation. Last week not even John C. Calder seemed to think that anything can be done with Balkhazhstroy...
In the first six months of 1932 Mayor Bulganin's civic government asphalted 350.000 yards of Moscow streets. Such statistics are prime news in Russia. Strictly speaking the "Mayor" is President of the Moscow Soviet and its Presidium is the civic government. Not a burly, two-fisted "Old Bolshevik...