Word: fistfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...swim team never reflected the problems she had with her housing situation. With fellow Co-Captain Jeanne Floyd, Calvert made Harvard's middle-distance corps one of the finest in the Ivy League and among the top in the entire East Coast. And by the end of her fist season in a Crimson suit, Calver had qualified for Nationals in two individual events, the 200 back and the 500 free, and as a member of the 800 freestyle relay...
...being made to look like some kind of ogre, who takes perverse pleasure in cutting government programs for the nation's needy. "My program hasn't hurt anybody," he has maintained "No one has been thrown out in the snow to die." Just last week, he repeatedly pounded his fist on the podium at a news conference and thunderingly accused the press of fostering the notion that reductions in Social Security benefits may be coming soon...
...fired, schools are closed when students voice their discontent and the homes of Arabs believed to be friendly toward the PLO are torn to the ground. Many Jews recognize these injustices. So Israeli society is becoming divided between those whose anti-Arab paranoia demands rule with an iron fist and those who fear morality is being compromised...
...described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born wife Maria stood by helplessly during her husband's fist-wielding tirades and sometimes suffered violence herself. Said a friend of the family's after the killing: "What those children did ... it made terrible sense...