Word: handclasp
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...week's end, at the National Airport, he reviewed a guard of honor from all services, made a four-way handclasp with Truman, Acheson and Marshall, kissed wife Mamie, and set off in Marshall's shiny Constellation for Paris. A reporter said to Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's chief of staff, who accompanied him: "I hope you have the best of luck." Said Gruenther: "Don't hope. Pray...
Like Potsdam? The President's last chore of the week took him to National Airport where, with a beaming smile and a warm handclasp, he welcomed Secretary of State Dean Acheson back from the fruitful Western powers' conference in London. "I want to congratulate you," the President told Acheson. "I think it was the most successful international conference since Potsdam." The congratulations were heartfelt, but the compliment was questionable : it was at Potsdam, Mr. Truman's only meeting with Stalin, that free elections were promised to Poland, and Germany was pledged to joint occupation by the four...
...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...