Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I arrived in Hanoi one night in 1961 aboard a Russian military plane, the entire North Vietnamese Politburo was there to meet Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma. I got to shake the hands of Premier Pham Van Dong, General Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who told me in near-perfect French: "Please tell the truth." The second time was totally different. There were no honor guards and no flowers at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport-only a flock of black-suited men with black shoes, black socks and conservative ties...
Instead there was Billy Harper and his sax. Odetta moaning about how it's gonna feel "when your biscuit roll is gone." Mandrill's man in the big straw hat talking about 'Oooh shake some boo-die. Get it on. Right on." Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers making the transition from a mellow "summertime and the livin' is easy" to some Latin and the livin...
...Your brothers and sisters need you in the law schools to defend them in political trials," he said. "Without you, they can't get a fair shake...
Though it was a crucial election, one that could prove every bit as momentous as the 1969 referendum that top pled De Gaulle, French voters seemed oddly unmoved. As election day approached, some candidates found them selves speaking to nearly empty auditoriums and searching for hands to shake. Touring his home district in the wine country of Burgundy one day last week, Gaullist Minister Jean-Philippe Lecat, the Pompidou government's official spokesman, drew crowds of two and three voters in some of the 15 towns and villages on his itinerary...
...with all dreams when they begin to become real, the effects can be unsettling. To the U.S., the most disturbing effect is of course economic. Shortly after the devaluation of the dollar last month, President Nixon instructed Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz to get a "fairer shake" for U.S. trade, even if he had to threaten protectionism. Faced with a massive and seemingly irreversible balance of payments deficit, the U.S. has begun to demand trade and monetary concessions-and to question whether Western Europe is carrying its share of the common defense burden...