Word: paw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Dixon-Yates contract already has caused your administration a lot of trouble and embarrassment. But you ain't seen nothin' yet unless you step in and straighten out the mess. You've got coming up a rambunctious Democratic Congress, and those guys are preparing to paw over that contract from hell to breakfast, make every political advantage of it and torment your next two years in the White House. Although many of the things [the Democrats] said about Dixon-Yates were untrue, enough was true to give the deal an unpleasant odor the public does...
...match the blast furnaces and the man-killing mines of an industrial age-"one of those guys who work hard and have lots of flesh with nothing supple about them. They never open their fists, really. They grip a cup like an animal would wrap a paw around it. They're so muscle-bound they can hardly talk. Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself at all." As he lived the part, Brando dragged his audience back by the hair...
Angered, one of the lions slammed him to the ground with a great paw. Two other lions began cuffing him while horrified spectators called for help. Hearing the screams, Margarethe Storch, an attendant, crawled into the arena banging two metal shields together...
...effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some of it back...
...fighting the only way he knows: throwing punches from everywhere, whacking away at Charles with jarring shots that began to find the range. They hurt no matter where they hit. In the eighth, Rocky was at his brawling best. He bulled Charles against the ropes, hooked his big left paw around the back of Charles's head to hold it in position, and whaled away with a vicious right uppercut to the Adam's apple. Charles never recovered...