Word: clasped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clasp hands for a moment, tell him good luck. Then you're off into the crowd, throwing a clenched fist of solidarity...
...years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates all of them." Her audiences are no longer composed of students, but she treats them like students. At the Western Governors conference in Anchorage this fall, she would clasp her hands and begin to lecture, almost as if she expected other Governors to start taking notes...
Safire still chats with Nixon on the phone, wears his Nixon tie clasp around the office, and corresponds with Convicts John Mitchell and John Ehrlichman. "Mitchell said he's working in the prison library cracking down on overdue books," reports Safire. "Ehrlichman and I have the same agent." He avoids ex-friend Henry Kissinger, who, Safire says, ordered his White House phone tapped...
Chavez was more than willing to clasp the Teamsters' hand. He expects his union to gain 22,000 new members by year's end. With a firm base in California, the charismatic Chicano could then move on to other Western states. Last week's U.F.W.-Teamsters agreement applies to 13 Western states for five years, and provides that after two years the unions will begin negotiations to make the agreement national. If that happens, the agriculture industry could be forced to drop its opposition to a national collective-bargaining law for farm workers, and Chavez could...
...Hawaii's Inouye, a much-decorated World War II veteran who lost his right arm in combat, the Senators wondered whether Sorensen would be able to approve agency operations that might endanger life. Sorensen also is a fierce Kennedy loyalist who still wears his PT-109 tie clasp. After the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, he was summoned to help draft the statement that tried to exonerate Ted Kennedy. Would Sorensen put family above national loyalty? Finally, there were nagging questions about his personality. He is intelligent, disciplined and principled, but he tends to be aloof, arrogant and occasionally self-righteous...