Word: thuggish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacob D. Hanson, Secretary of the Niagara Falls lodge of Elks, driving up the hill of Lewiston Heights, N. Y., decided not to halt. Those overalls, that coat, that gun, looked thuggish. As he sped by, several shots banged out behind him. Farther down the road, another man appeared and started shooting. Everything went black for Motorist Hanson. His car careened into the roadside bank...
...Thuggish method of forcing passage through a throng. The hands are held clenched close to the chest, the elbows flexed and projected stiffly to each side of the torso. To move forward one jabs bystanders with the elbows and, as they wince, sidles through the opening...