Word: fistfuls
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...chairman of the opposition Democratic Party's international-relations committee. "He makes friends." But Ban can also be tough. In the face of opposition from his own diplomats, Ban reformed Seoul's foreign ministry, replacing a promotion system based on seniority with a meritocratic one. He's an "iron fist in a velvet glove," says an aide...
During one seminar on 16th-century counterpoint, a professor chastised Bernstein for playing a nontraditional and dissonant composition. According to Shapero, who was also in the class, "Lenny took his fist and went BANG, like that," playing the piece despite the protestations...
...groups of men (generous description of these boys) planning a party. The party no doubt promised loud music and several athletic chants and guaranteed a few belligerent guests and a hundred plastic cups, sticky to the touch and scattered among discarded hoodies and a pair of high black heels. Fist pumps and throaty grunts often accompanied the pronouncement of these ragers, linking a sort of primitive energy with potentially ruckus festivities. During the morning-after recap, swollen-eyed revelers regularly utilized their contemporary vocabulary. Over plates of Sunday hash-browns and brunch quesadillas, they would tout the greatest rager...
...Literally I grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him through the side door,” de Waal says, adding that the pair then ran into Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.“You let me down,” Obasanjo told Nur, shaking his fist in the rebel leader’s face, de Waal recounts.For the next three hours, they tried to convince Nur to sign the agreement—he refused.The signing proceeded with Minawi as the only rebel signatory.But convinced that it was imperative that the other rebel groups sign, de Waal carried...
Once the pain of surgery had subsided after Christmas, I began to suffer the bane of amputees: phantom limb pain. Sometimes I felt as if my fist was clamping tighter and tighter until my fingers were ready to explode. At other times, the Phantom could create the sensation of twisted fingers or a bent thumb...