Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters are constantly rediscovering, both appearances are somewhat deceiving. Pat on the stump is full of banter and mildly flirtatious, brimming with a zest for meeting people. She tackles a crowd of strangers like a bee that has spotted a new clover field. She does not simply shake a hand, she cuddles it in both of hers. She hugs, touches, pats, squeezes. She scoops up small children with easy endearments like "Dolly," or "Sweetheart." She almost never makes formal speeches, nor does she directly praise her husband. "I can't boast for my family," she explains...
That duality led to the horrible excesses that occurred in Nazi Germany's twilight. "As Germany suffers successive defeats, Hitler will become more and more neurotic," Psychoanalyst Langer warned the OSS. "Each defeat will shake his confidence and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness to himself. He will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality and ruthlessness...
...Finny falls from the tree and breaks his leg. Gene spends the rest of the movie consumed by guilt. Did he shake the branch to make his friend fall because of Pinny's unrelenting competitiveness? Or to still a growing homosexual affection? In any case, the terrible truth about the tree limb comes out in a kangaroo court. Finny breaks his leg again, and the kindly old school doctor sets the bone. But there are complications, and Finny meets the kind of unexpected and untimely end that whisked the heroine of Love Story off to Valhalla...
...more relaxed budget is welcome, of course, but as Brewster warned the Yale Corporation, "the surprising divergence of estimates and performance does pose a danger that no future forecast will be believed." Moreover, he said, such "skepticism and suspicion" about how accurate Yale is in forecasting its budgets might shake "the community's confidence in the credibility and competence of the administration...
...Nordwig of East Germany topped 18 ft. ½ in. to pick up the gold medal, leaving Seagren fuming with a silver. The usually easygoing U.S. vaulter thrust the pole into the hands of an I.A.A.F. official and turned away angrily from Nordwig's extended hand. Seagren returned to shake hands, but his anger was scarcely concealed. "The only difference between the pole I'm using and the one I used two years ago is that this one is 500 grams lighter and painted a different color. Every major vaulter in the world, including Nordwig, had access...