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...fisted drinker who holds his liquor very well, McCarthy does not smoke. He detests cigars. Joe always begins a lunch or dinner speech by coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been smoking. It reminds me of my days back on the farm." This serves a double purpose: it gets a laugh, and all head-table smokers stub out their cigars...
Father Feeney, an elderly man with fleshy jowls and stringy gray hair, took the platform. His voice is high-pitched and has a tendency toward lisping, which he makes up for by an outraged tone of delivery and much smashing of fist into palm...
...there's a brawl, you can be sure of one thing-Turkey won't stand off as it did in World War II. Turkey has a good strong fist that'll bloody any nose that comes poking out from behind the Iron Curtain...
Before Dunlap's conference was over, he was handed a telegram from San Francisco. After a hasty reading, he slammed his fist on his desk. "Here's another," he announced in angry exasperation. Dorothy C. Frisbee, a 14-year veteran of the bureau, had admitted to embezzling $5,000 from the employees' credit union. Dunlap signed her suspension order on the spot. In San Francisco, Smyth insisted that he and his men were taking a "bum rap," yet Smyth seemed to have an extraordinarily relaxed attitude toward his job. According to the Kefauver Committee, Smyth...
...medicine man makes the painting by trickling powdered sandstone and charcoal from his fist on to a smooth bed of sand. He works entirely by tradition, not inspiration, painting the gods precisely as they are supposed to have pictured themselves to his ancestors...