Word: fists
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...fool that I do not know that the champion of the world is a human being, like anybody, and I know that any one who is a human being will be knocked out if I hit him in the proper place on the jaw with my right fist...
...Strengthen your fist and spirit. It is the spirit that makes the fist rise and fall on the head of the Fatherland's enemies...
...huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
...York Globe published a series of articles describing Germany under the rule of a new mailed fist- that of the iron and coal kings...
...rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep...