Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, choose to join the tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and civilians who have made their way to the West since 1945. "The Party," said Pirogov, "does nothing to meet the needs and desires of the people." "And elections aren't free!" shouted Barsov, banging his fist on the table. "They must vote at the point of a gun . . . The army doesn't live badly, and especially the air corps; but the farmer who represents the majority of Russians lives so badly and is treated so badly it pained me, so I decided to leave...
Father Tabaret died in 1886. By that time, the city's French Catholic population was catching up with the Irish. French influence began to dominate the university, and the traditional French emphasis on classics and seminary studies was restored. Prejudices flared up again, and so did fist fights and near riots among the students. In 1929, the Catholic Church sanctioned an Irish college (St. Patrick's) in Ottawa for those who did not want to attend the university...
...standing here in a blue suit like a truckdriver at his own wedding, rattling the ice cubes in his drink, with people talking about the last picture they made and what the critics said and what the doctors thought about the baby's habit of sleeping with his fist in his eyes, and a man with a guitar singing fake Southern ballads . . . and the magenta girl with three breasts over...
...anti-imperialists, the Laborites were against colonial exploitation by private enterprise. Last week Colonial Under Secretary David Rees-Williams banged his fist on a table and growled: "I'm not having any private enterprise interfering with these developments." On the other hand, the government had neither the money nor the experience to go through with its developments unless it had the help of private enterprise...
...agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention to give consideration...