Word: fistfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strengthen your lips, grasp them firmly in the fist and pull them out like a handful of cotton-wool. Do this continually until they ache...
Because so many of its citizens could not read or write, prewar Yugoslavia adopted the rubber ballot. Under this system, in full view of election officials, the voter holds a little rubber ball in his fist, dips his fist into all the ballot boxes, drops the ball where he chooses, finally shows his empty fist...
...smartly uniformed dictator had campaigned with speech and dance (see cut). With him as he cast his own vote in Belgrade was Petar Stambolic, President of Serbia. Tito voted first, dipping his fist into both boxes, then holding up his open palm. But when Stambolic put his hand in the "no" box, he let go the rubber ballot. There was momentary horror, then laughter as Stambolic sputtered that he had made a mistake. "Petar," said Tito, "you are finished." But he said it with a grin, and waited with a grin while Stambolic, with official permission, fished out his vote...
...liquor supply," said Coombs, "will be like that this year!"--and he pounded his fist into his open hand. "It's be solid...
Brown put up the traditional show of reluctance to accept the highest honor that can be paid to a commoner. First he smilingly shook his fist in Kirkwood's face, then allowed himself to be dragged reluctantly to the Speaker's dais. Prime Minister Clement Attlee warned Brown that the parliamentary weather might be "stormy with fair intervals," or "unsettled...