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...hesitation. British entry into a European free-trade area would involve painful adjustments. While some factories would prosper and expand, others would go out of business-a prospect to send cold chills down the spine of many a British industrialist. Some labor leaders were sure to make a fist at the very suggestion of even temporary disruptions of employment...
...business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...organization at a secret session "somewhere in Jordan," of an Arab underground stretching from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. "Particular stress was laid on the importance of destroying oilfields and pipelines and paralyzing work of all imperialist companies sucking the blood of Arab peoples." That was the clenched fist of the man with the cigarette in his other hand...
...Warning Fist. Even New York's Republican William E. Miller, who had sponsored the bill, tried to recommit it; he feared that Hitler had come to power by "decrees just like this legislation. In its present form it will destroy more civil liberties and civil rights than it protects." The Southerners greeted this with a standing ovation. Then Minority Leader Joe Martin, trembling, rushed down to the Speaker's well and shook a warning fist at his colleagues. "If you follow the Southern democracy in defeat of this bill," he intoned grimly, "you will regret it every...
...play Henry VIII in a Broadway production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days. He flung his skinny frame into the heavily padded king's role so frantically that once during rehearsals he had to be hospitalized. An X ray showed his stomach clenched into fist-size; Harrison claims the hospital is still displaying the plates as an example of what nervous tension...