Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael A. Sullivan is father of nine, a truck drivers' boss, a member of the Cambridge (Mass.) City Council and a fighting Irishman. Mr. Sullivan mortally hates & fears Communism. A year ago, in his zeal to stamp it out, he fist-brawled with Harvard undergraduates. Last week reckless Mr. Sullivan introduced, and his Council unanimously passed, a resolution directing that the words Lenin and Leningrad be expunged from every piece of printed matter in Cambridge, but failed to say what would happen if they were not. Stalin was not mentioned, nor Stalingrad, nor Communism...
...lieu tenant, returns from leave in Paris. He renews his acquaintance with the trans forming fact of trench fear. He and his sardonic pal Fabre get relief in a joke, adapted from an article by Foch. Jerphanion asks Fabre what he thinks will happen that winter. Fabre clenches his fist. "This," he says, "that when the time comes, we shall charge the foe and let cold steel decide." Then they go off into gales of laughter...
...doctor with my fist," the boxer confessed. The secretary's persistency enraged him. "I reached for something that was on the table or the dresser... I don't know what it was ... I lost my head...