Word: fistfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within minutes, paramedics wheeled the unconscious Jordan into the emergency room of Parkview Memorial Hospital, where surgeons operated on him for 4½ hours. They found that the first bullet had torn a fist-size hole in the lower left side of his back, sliced through his intestine and exited from his chest. A second bullet had broken into at least two pieces, apparently as it glanced off a chain-link fence a few yards from Jordan. Fragments struck him in the right thigh and upper left chest. During the operation the doctors removed three small fragments of the first...
...time ticked away in long seconds toward that moment when the signal would come that the mission was on. The commander received his orders. The soldiers and airmen were watching his face. He turned and jammed his fist into the air with his thumb up. Shouts shattered the stillness. It was a brief burst. There were no bands and no U.S. flags. The next stir was the big turbo props coming to life-then the transports lifting off into tragedy...
Thatcher flinches from no one. She has shaken a fist at Leonid Brezhnev, warning him against Soviet expansionism. She has served an ultimatum on her partners on the Continent, protesting the unfair financial burden imposed on Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...
...duration and intensity it sounded like a twelve-gauge-shotgun blast six inches from my ear. I had been holding my breath. I let it out with a shout of pure joy. I was still alive! I shook my fist at the wildly pitching sky. "Kill me!" I shouted. "Go ahead and try! I don't care! I DON'T CARE...
...name and something with Harvard written on it--I don't recall what." Burns charged that he did not believe that Ezera was actually the man arrested. The judge asked that the lawyers approach the bench. Following a brief discussion the judge declared Ezera not guilty. With clenched fist Ezera walked out of the courtroom and friends and supporters cheered...