Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects that drinking from plastic cups has on his bowels. And feeling sympathetic, we offered to find him another real glass to replace the plastic--in exchange for an interview. He agreed, but, once supplied, demurred, and we were only partly consoled by his offer to shake our hand, Others, much more interested in his conversation than in interviews, seemed altogether delighted by his presence. One cheery visitor who has called for drink repeatedly during the lecture did penance at the party by keeping the Guest's glass filled...
...courtroom: "The cops say I've been picked up 15, maybe 17 times. That's junk. It was 150 times. I been worked over for nothing until my hat sits on my head like it belongs on a midget." Someone in 1961 overheard him trying to shake down a Brooklyn restaurant owner for a share of the profits. The proprietor asked for time to think about it. "Sure," said Gallo, "take three months in the hospital...
...Administration took office, Keogh reports, expecting an unfair shake, and Nixon himself warned his Cabinet appointees of the twisted coverage to come. As Keogh perceives it, those fears proved more than justified. He exempts some publications and individuals from criticism, such as U.S. News & World Report, FORTUNE, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, Columnists Max Lerner and Joseph and Stewart Alsop, NBC's Herbert Kaplow and ABC's Howard K. Smith. But he indicts big journalism generally-not for a liberal conspiracy, as some do, but for a "condition of conformity" that bends the news...
...Going Down. American tourists who thought that the December devaluation had stabilized the dollar rate have been startled to find it bouncing up and down like a yo-yo-but mostly down. "They come into the hotel and walk over to the board that lists exchange rates, shake their heads and mumble," says a Paris Hilton executive...
...particularly striking example of the omnipresent hoard called the press was the Muskie tour of the Manchester shoe factory. The smiling Maine Senator, dressed in his gray wool body-fitting suit, weaved his way through huge barricades of incomplete shoes to shake hands with the factory workers. The press, about 50 of them, invaded the building chasing Muskie down aisles, questioning workers about their opinions, and cutting off the campaign team to get local-color pictures of Muskie with the workers...