Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighth day Aldrich lost a finger nail when a shark nipped his hand. A leopard shark was shot before a squall left the pistol corroded. Dixon batted one shark on the nose with his fist and drove it away...
...firing lines and not just visiting them. Of nearly 30 American chaplains, every one has been near falling bombs or whizzing bullets or found what it means when the enemy has continual air superiority. Many is the chaplain, dodging dive-bombers, who has gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers. Chaplains are doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions and giving out Bibles to carrying dead and wounded under fire. Baptist Chaplain Lieut. Robert P. Taylor of Texas gave...
...roomy Iowa City house, where his principal hobby was gardening, he lived in dignified semiretirement, entertained a continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...
...records of some 1,500 of the world's prizefighters, the measurements of 32 famed heavyweights, the odds on every heavyweight championship bout from Sullivan-Corbett to Louis-Nova, a detailed explanation of the financial deal on the Johnson-Jeffries fight, and many another fist fact. Samples...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...