Word: fisting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last June 16 she showed up at a graduation ceremony in the predominantly Negro Patrick Campbell School. A near riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...levels. For the Israelis, however, trust must equally reside in Israel's highly mechanized and vigorous army, without which the 19-year-old nation might long since have been pushed into the sea. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol came under heavy pressure at home to unleash his mailed fist in retaliation for what is interpreted in Jerusalem as nothing less than Syrian brinkmanship...
...safety can transmit unnecessarily restrictive fears to him. The reaction in either case, says Dr. Agle, can be self-destructive. In an effort to deny his fears, the hemophiliac boy may take what are, for him, absurd risks by jumping from trees, riding motorcycles and even picking fist fights...
...Freud and Bullitt. At the same time, this too-deep devotion to his father caused young Tommy Wilson to suppress the aggressive instincts that a growing boy normally directs against his male parent. The authors state flatly that Wilson "never had a fist fight in his life" and did not participate in sports or games of any kind, although they contradict themselves later. Bullitt and Freud insist that Wilson grew up virtually shorn of the traits of manliness; his use of gentle persuasion rather than forcefulness was to them a sure sign that feminine characteristics had taken the upper hand...
...killing me!" A boy, dragged out by his long locks, screamed, "Damn fascists!" One officer, his hand bleeding freely, said he had been bitten. The officers forced their way through some 400 jeering students outside the building. Three students were arrested for interfering with the police, one in a fist fight...