Word: fisting
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...illegible Italian on a piece of brown paper. Policemen had met him at the station. Detectives, ranked around him, had escorted him to his hotel. Now they watched him curiously as he sat reading the epistle that might be his death warrant. He crumpled it in his pudgy fist...
Cried the "unidentified ruffianly youth" who held the revolver: "You dare to attack the Government and Premier Bethen! Take that! And that!" (striking him in the face with a brass knuckled fist). Then policemen scurried up . . . Uncharitable persons accused the Premier of importing such ruffians to deal with his opponents...
...they stressed the desperate necessity for calm, dispassionate, concerted action in considering the Cartel finance bill (TIME, Feb. 8), which was before the house. The bill was presented in 101 articles with over 250 amendments already attached.* After an entire week of furious debate, often degenerating into fist fights and hair pulling, a part of one article had been passed amended out of all semblance to its original state, thrown back into the chamber again as utterly impracticable and passed again in a still further amended form, which admittedly bordered on legislative lunacy...
...pace that would surely be impossible for him to keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited his chance. Kansas was standing off to loop a left to the head, when he sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other's jaw. Rocky did not waver. Oof! Again the big right-hand sock. Rocky came tearing in. ... He was flogging Goodrich's red ribs when the gong clanged for the end of the 15th round and the referee stepped forward to indicate that he-Rocky ("Bleeding...
...right mauler. Standing in the middle of the most magnificent prize-ring in the world-a ring with posts of brass, bucket-holders of brass, seats braced with brass, and ropes of bottle-green plush-the Star Chamber of the new Madison Square Garden, Manhattan-he pushed that fist so violently into the face of Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd rose in pandemonium, for it was a fact patent to all that...