Word: fisting
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...when they're sure you're not an unctuous agitator for Prospect Club, they are willing to talk to you freely, gather, gather around and tell you calmly about the fist fight at the meeting when Court Club decided to cut its Jewish quota in half because an unintentional influx one year was causing its prestige to flag; about what an ICC president told one of them privately and with a certain sadness one day, that "anti-Semitism in the clubs is something that can neither be exposed, nor proved, nor cured"; about the tacit and explicit demands of club...
...work in F.D.R.'s day and remarked that he could never be comfortable there. Back in his own much smaller suite, he stretched out and began talking about his job, about his goals, about himself. As he spoke, he gradually became more emphatic, some times doubling his fist as he stressed his points. "If I don't come down hard on these things," he said, "nothing will move." He said he wasted little time listening to the attacks of his critics. "These people are committed to destroying what I want to achieve and that means destroying...
...Japanese openly debating the expansion of forces to defend their home islands and territorial waters, but no one in East Asia, including the Japanese, wants the U.S. to prod Japan into taking responsibility for other countries as well. On this subject, Ambassador Hahm of South Korea clenches his fist, purses his lips and raises his voice: "There is a suspicion throughout the area that the U.S. may be tempted to strengthen Japan as a surrogate. That plays on the 'ugly Japanese' syndrome. It conjures up the nightmare-an image out of hell-of the swaggering Japanese. Many countries...
...some even before the age of the dinosaurs-by the evaporation of ancient saline seas. Layer upon layer of sediment piled atop the dried-up ocean beds. Gradually, columns of the lighter salt were forced upward by the pressure, like putty squeezed through the fingers of a slowly clenching fist. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 500 such salt domes, all of them in or around the Gulf of Mexico...
...country, and the reception was often only lukewarm, sometimes hostile. Security forces outnumbered the crowds nearly everywhere, and at most of their stops-from Vitoria to San Sebastian -the King and his wife, Queen Sofia, also had to endure the presence of angry Basque demonstrators, who were raising clenched-fist salutes and chanting anthems and slogans in their ancient language...