After hearing the claim of insanity, Mr. Breivik smiled and shook his head, extending his clenched fist in a salute he used in the first days of his trial.

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He groped her and, when she rejected his advances, he smashed her in the face with a clenched fist, breaking her nose.

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Mandela was 71 years old when he walked free from Victor Verster prison, his clenched fist held high.

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He was not much to look at, but he had Rumpelstiltskin's own temper, and when angry which was often his fist clenched and pounded the air, his barrel chest thrust forward, and his orders shot out like a hound's bark.

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