Word: fistfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman later won standing ovations with a fist-pounding speech in which he vowed that there would be no more givebacks. Said he: "We're proud of the gains we've made over the years, because we've earned them." After naming the chairmen of the Big Three automakers, Bieber insisted, "I am deadly serious when I say it's their turn to do some giving...
...parity did not exclude WASPs from the mayorality of Boston. The reason for this is that the inclusive pluralism of American political culture--a democratic pluralism that encourages inter-ethnic power sharing--militating against political exclusivism and ethnic-oligarchy tendencies. So that in 1917 "Honey Fitz" (grandfather of the fist Irish-American president of the U.S., John Fitzgerald Kennedy) gave way to a WASP Republican, George Albee Hibbard...
...adeptly copied the dress code of the revolution, and the streets of the port capital town of St. George's are filled with remarkably accurate understudies for Che Guevara. The government's "mass rallies" have got the stem-winding syntax of fighting socialism down to the last fist-raising rounds of "Long live! Long live...
...vote, nearly all from blacks who had registered in record numbers. But that was enough, barely, to top two white candidates: Incumbent Mayor Jane Byrne, 48, and State's Attorney Richard M. Daley, 40, son of the mayor who ran the city machine with an iron fist until his death...
...defenses improved in the second half, as both teams scored a total of five goals following the fist half's 11. Crimson Tri-Captain Rich Ronald felt the stick men "let down is little but in the second half...