Word: handclasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Members of the Social Democratic Party decided to cooperate with the Communist Party in a joint working committee of 20 to carry out the Communist program. Since the German Communists in the past have fought Social Democrats even more fiercely than they fought the Nazis, this was a historic handclasp...
...strange Arab lamps appeared, being brought in by neighbors. I was followed out to the carriage by this strange procession of torches to light the way. Many of these people had the faces of patriarchs, silhouetted by the strange light in the darkness. I shall never forget the fervent handclasp of one old fellow who was black as the ace of spades. He couldn't speak a word of French, but he understood everything. . . . There are a number of other families who will need help of this kind...
...they scurried into the political badlands to handclasp, speechify, claim and counterclaim. Into North Carolina and West Virginia scurried Thomas E. Dewey; into Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama stumped Robert Taft. In Missouri and Nebraska, Wendell Willkie quietly gathered in delegates that his rivals had counted on as safe in their own bags. The newest Gallup poll showed him second in popularity among Republican voters, upped him from 10% to 17% in two weeks' time (Dewey lost 4%, but was still far in the lead with...