Word: fistfuls
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What a blowhard thing to say. For most of us seeking to enjoy life, the above assertion poses a head-scratching, fist-banging dilemma. Relationships are often good, but they are always complicated. Sex is fun but necessarily serious. In the approaching season as we delight in the mutual exposure of sumptuous muscle and flesh, these confusing facts of life still give us pause. Why are sex, difference, power and violence so intimately related...
...thought was a firecracker, Abernathy looked out to the walkway and saw that King had fallen. Only his feet were visible, one foot protruding awkwardly through the walkway's iron railing. Abernathy rushed out, stepping over his friend to kneel by his side. Blood was gushing from a fist-size bullet wound in King's right cheek. Tenderly cradling King's head, Abernathy patted his left cheek and tried to console him: "This is Ralph, this is Ralph, Martin, don't be afraid." Moments later, another King aide, Andrew Young, checked King's pulse and told Abernathy, "Ralph...
When the slender, white-haired Nelson Mandela, then 71, first glimpsed the crowd assembled at the gates of Victor Verster prison, he instinctively raised his right arm in the black-power salute of a clenched fist--a simple public gesture that he had not been able to make during his 27 years, six months and seven days of imprisonment. His release had been orchestrated by South Africa's white minority government, but it was a reluctant acknowledgement of what had become an unstoppable force. The world had lost patience with white rule in South Africa and had placed its faith...
...League title hunt on Friday, but that didn’t seem to matter to Brady Merchant the next night against Princeton. The Crimson captain’s clutch three-pointer with 15 seconds left put Harvard on the verge of upsetting its eternal nemesis and, along with his fist-pumping celebration, brought the Lavietes Pavilion crowd to its feet...
...sure, the Drug Free Student Loans Provision remains law not because its injustice is debatable, but rather because of the quagmire into which debate over drug policy has sunk. Rhetoric has eclipsed logic as politicians come down with an iron fist knowing that it will win them votes, even though they also know that a war on drug users wastes billions of dollars each year and turns hundreds of thousands of Americans into criminals when, if anything, they ought to be helped, not jailed or denied access to education...