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...Congress just to pass the time away or to look good. Everything he sends to Congress he believes to be for the good of the country, and he is going to work for its enactment. Make no mistake about it, the President added, wagging his head and pounding his fist on the desk in emphasis, that is exactly what he is here for and that is what he intends...
...valleys of Austria's Vorarlberg Province, the toll was the worst in memory: 113 dead. The village of Blons alone was buried under two avalanches, one of them 90 ft. deep. "It looked." said an observer, "as though it had been hit with an Almighty fist." Swiss and U.S. Air Force helicopters flew in to Blons and the other hamlets to help the skiborne rescue workers. To rescue two villagers, Captain Billy Sayers of Lubbock, Texas maneuvered a ten-passenger whirlybird into a 30-ft. square stamped out on a Blons hillside by the boots of a rescue party...
...speaking to a small group, he may stab the air with an emphatic forefinger (above). Or, as he makes a solid point, he may make a clenching gesture with one fist, held so close to his side as almost to escape notice. But his expressive face does most of his gesturing for him; people rarely misunderstand Ike in a face-to-face conversation, even though, in cold transcript, his sentences sometimes balloon into syntactical confusion...
...about that. He turned its front page around and set out aggressively to give the Mirror a crisp, sensational style ("All news stories are written too long, including those in the Mirror"). Los Angeles, said Pinkley, "needs a fighting newspaper [and] the Mirror is anyone's fist in a good fight." The paper picked its fights carefully, more often to woo new readers than for any lofty civic motives. Mirrormen breezily campaigned against everything from "black-market baby rackets" and Southern California's "Saloon Empire" to ugly female legs...
Forewarned, Forearmed. In Oklahoma City, after hiring an ambulance with two attendants. Attorney Charles Ham Jr. rode in it to his ex-wife's home, angrily told her gentleman friend, "One of us is going to ride to the hospital," after a short fist fight was carried to the ambulance and driven to the hospital...