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Examples
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In the four years after he left the court with a clenched-fist salute, she visited him in various high-security jails while appeals and other legal actions were prepared.
Carlos the Jackal plays to the gallery, but this time his courtroom audience has not turned up 2011
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On sober reflection the next morning, Jane recognized that it had been perhaps less than diplomatic to choose that particular clenched-fist salute to serenade “an heir to the Standard Oil fortune.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Mr. Cuomo said he wanted his first budget to be more of a product of brainstorming, not of clenched-fist negotiations.
Cuomo Outlines Fiscal Fix Jacob Gershman 2011
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England are either hurtling back into a discredited clenched-fist past or acknowledging that one strength worth recovering from the wreckage of the World Cup was Terry's leadership.
Fabio Capello risks all by giving John Terry his bark back | Paul Hayward 2011
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The pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world suggest to many that al-Qaeda's clenched-fist ideology has little place for a new generation seeking Western-style political reforms and freedoms even though al-Qaeda offshoots still hold ground in places such as Yemen and Pakistan.
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On sober reflection the next morning, Jane recognized that it had been perhaps less than diplomatic to choose that particular clenched-fist salute to serenade “an heir to the Standard Oil fortune.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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As the rain drummed on the roof, as lightning lit the lines and the clenched-fist strength of the statue in the window and thunder rumbled through the mountains, Kahlan, without fearing it, without worrying about it, without wondering if she would be able, held Richard tightly as they made quiet, gentle, fierce love.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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But aside from the juror who gave Simpson a clenched-fist salute when it was all over, the jurors did nothing in court to indicate how they could have unanimously decided O.J. Simpson's fate so quickly.
How The Jury Saw It 2008
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I caught his eye and gave him a 1960s-vintage clenched-fist salute, but he may have been too young to know what it meant.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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I caught his eye and gave him a 1960s-vintage clenched-fist salute, but he may have been too young to know what it meant.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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