Word: handclasps
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...Brien's Olympic record by 3 ft. 7! in. Puffing mightily, O'Brien finished second with 62 ft. 8| in., a bare 4 in. ahead of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long. O'Brien tarried only long enough to give Nieder a handclasp and the thin sliver of a smile, then retreated to the stands where he admitted candidly: "School's out. Parry choked...
...must be close to 80, but he will not admit it. Only his blue eyes tip off his age: occasionally they betray him by watering. But Norman Clyde still has a face that is unlined and a handclasp that can crumple knuckles. Square and solid, he still can carry a 120-lb pack by the hour with his bent-knee shuffle. And he still knows more than any other man alive about the wilds and wonders of the Sierra Nevada, the giant wall of granite that links Nevada and California with some of the most rugged peaks on the continent...
...wedded mourner seeking still For vanished handclasp, drinking in thy fill...
Just to feel the handclasp cheery...
...they walked out into the White House rose garden last week for their public leavetaking, Dwight Eisenhower and Saudi Arabia's King Saud exchanged a double handclasp that signified to all the world a diplomatic achievement of first importance. As the delegated eyes and ears of the combustible Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians, Saud now thoroughly understood-if he could not yet publicly embrace-the Eisenhower doctrine. The talks, as President Eisenhower told his press conference, had cleared away much of "the underbrush of misunderstanding"; now the seeds could be planted, and clearly Saud would be a valued planter...