Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice to civilians: the hard back of your fist to any returning G.I. or officer who attempts wiping his feet on you as he has been accustomed to wipe his feet on Europeans (all of them) whom he considers "inferior...
...biggest jolt to German morale (which was only kept from going to pieces by the Nazis' iron fist) was delivered by the R.A.F. in three "city attacks" on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was "some indication . . . that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany...
...struck you?" "Yes." "With his fist?" "Yes." "Did it leave marks and cause you suffering?" "Yes." "Divorce granted...
Before the Council of Foreign Ministers met in London, Britain's Ernest Bevin told a friend: "If Molotov bangs his fist on the table and yells at me, I will bang my fist and yell right back at him." This childishness, not to be confused with toughness, befitted neither the great tradition of British diplomacy nor the dire necessities...
...political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional commission for rebuilding Korea, nucleus of party No. 3. He is out of circulation at the moment (it appears there were a couple of fist fights). Lyuh told me he wants to set all good Koreans - Communists included - help the reconstruction...