Word: fisting
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...independent French-eventually perhaps an independent German-nuclear force. To Adenauer, this means good things: an end to ancient Franco-German rivalries, a stern fist in Moscow's face. To Franz Josef Strauss, it could mean more than that: the revival of nationalist German instincts and policies...
This proposition has won praise from Albert Schweitzer and Evangelical Pastor Martin Niemoller, and bitter attacks from Pope Paul VI and Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius. Police had to break up a fist-swinging riot at the Basel premiere. Hochhuth, a Protestant who once belonged to Hitler's youth corps, has been denounced as a pro-Communist and an anti-Semite. U.S. Catholic journals-including the respected Jesuit weekly America-have editorially attacked the play, apparently in hopes of forestalling a Broadway production planned for next February by Producer Herman F. Shumlin, whose last play, Inherit the Wind, was about...
...C.M.E. bad all right, but it ain't nothin' like it was two years ago." Knight Collins emphasized his judgment with the tap of fist against cupped hands, and we walked...
...weeks ago, when tricky Pitt pulled a fake kick, passed for two extra points and beat California, 35-15, for its third straight victory of the season, the entire student cheering section gave Litchfield a standing ovation as he rose in his box and gave the clenched-fist signal: "Go, Pitt...
...coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice of the working class making itself heard, and the officers almost blanch at its menace...