Word: fists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...
...catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...
...falcons, Odette and Isolde, were hard at work at new peacetime jobs. Eight other falcons were busy at Driffield in Yorkshire. Each day a thickly gloved trainer took them out on the field and gingerly removed their hoods. Then (in falconer's lingo) "they rang up from the fist, attained their pitch at 1,000 or more feet up, waited on until the game was served to them," and swooped to the kill at speeds up to 300 m.p.h. One flight a day has so far been enough to persuade other birds that Coltishall and Driffield are poor places...
Then, as Toga was led out, Politis grabbed his tongue with his left hand, pulled it out as far as he could and came up hard under his jaw with his right fist. His teeth bit right through his tongue...