Word: fistfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ezera left the courtroom with a clenched fist held high a midst a standing-room only crowd after the announcement of the verdict...
...face red, his beefy right fist chopping the air, Ted Kennedy roared his litany: "And I say the only fair way, the only equitable way, the only effective way to break the back of inflation is to put a freeze on, right across the board, on prices, on wages, on interest rates, on profits and dividends and rents. I say enough is enough." The sparse crowd in Skokie, Ill., roared back its approval one snowy night last week. But earlier that same day in Chicago, the same Kennedy line had fallen flat...
...Senator soon had second thoughts and filed the speech away. Since then he has been beaten three more times-in Maine, Minnesota and, most embarrassingly, in his own backyard of New Hampshire. Yet because he got more New Hampshire votes than Carter did in 1976.* Kennedy thrust out a fist and made a peculiar boast: "Tonight we are claiming victory." And he later added, "We're in it to stay...
...Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan last week. Many expressed a deep fear of war. A characteristic comment was: "Carter is going too far." Scientists, artists and other intellectuals who treasure their links to the West, as well as the limited freedom detente has brought them, feared that the iron fist would fall on them as a result of a renewed cold war. The most openly expressed emotion was anger at the U.S. threat to withdraw from the Olympics. The Soviets appeared to take personal offense at what they perceived as a blow to their country's pride. One topic...
Cleary likes his players to think of him as someone beyond the x's and o's. "You want to be successful," he says, pumping the air with a clenched fist, "but hopefully you're a little more than just a coach to the kids, you're not just judged by your wins and losses...