Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Aircraft Production, and found everything quiet there. Not long before, Lord Beaverbrook had said: "If you want to see what damage Hitler's done, take a look into Beaverbrook's garden. When you see a little man tearing up and down, raging and shaking his fist at the sky, you'll know Hitler's hit aircraft production...
Some real jostling took place in the House of Commons at the foot of Big Ben's tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain...
...favorite with the 'across-the-tracks' gang of boys and girls. They fought with rocks, knives and sometimes with pistols. At 14 she saw a boy badly stabbed by another in an argument over her at a school picnic. She married at 16. and had a fist-and-chair fight with her husband the first time she saw him after their marriage...
Shortly after midnight next morning, in an apartment on the Japanese side of Soochow Creek, Timesman Abend was packing trunks, making ready to move into the International Settlement, when a fist pounded on his door. He opened it, saw two Japanese in civilian clothes with drawn revolvers. One of them struck Newsman Abend on the head, the other wrenched his arm behind his back, demanded: "Where is the anti-Japanese book you are writing...
...John Kelly: "It is tragically futile for us to continue to teach the undoubted beauties of international peace and good will to our own people, when in opposition to such ideals we have most of the countries across the oceans indoctrinated with belief in the efficacy of the mailed fist. . . . The impregnating of the juvenile mind with the fundamental duty of the American citizen to bear arms in defense of his country is an obligation of the schools...