Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to pin him-he simply began to hammer the living daylights out of him." Herb "must have been absorbing quite a drubbing for the moment he heard my voice he called . . . 'Jump in, Bill!' " But Joe had a long reach, held Bellamy off with one fist while he wore out Herb with the other...
...Family is not all about Boy Town and fist fights. There are Mother's efforts to make both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...
...Latin-American arena last week the U.S. fist smashed full into the Axis face. The sparring for the goods and good will of a continent was over. A Roosevelt proclamation made it total economic war. Some 1,800 firms and individuals in business from Rio Grande to Cape Horn were publicly declared to be Axis-owned or Axis-aiding, put on a blacklist. From now on none of these firms can receive U.S. goods. All their assets and credits in the U.S. are frozen...
...noticing, the other screaming and recklessly banging his head against a table, but a jury swiftly found them guilty of first-degree murder. Still their exhibition was not over. On the way to Sing Sing last week one of them attacked the driver of their car with his unmanacled fist, and at the door of the prison they put on this show. They were locked up in the empty women's wing of the death house so that they could not disturb other men about...
Last week 50 Senators and Representatives, led by Senator Taft, publicly organized a bloc pledged to "unalterable opposition" to U.S. convoys "by whatever name they may be called." In the Senate, when Pennsylvania's Guffey spoke for convoys, Senator Tobey answered him, shaking his fist in the direction of the White House: "Mr. Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Executive . . . keep your hands off the Congress of the United States!" Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to convoys. An Associated Press poll of the Senate showed...