Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life of Keith Bush. It showed him being dressed, fed, bathed, shaved, given therapy, and finally being shifted in his bed during the night to avoid bedsores. Bush himself appeared in court slumped in a wheelchair. To show he was tragically alert though helpless, he tried but failed to shake Boccardo's hand when asked. The jury gave him everything that was requested: $3,000,000 for himself, half of which is for the projected cost of care for the 40 years he is expected to live; $500,000 for his wife; and $150,000 for his three children...
...total offense eclipsed by an astounding 1,319 yds. the N.C.A.A. record set last year by North Texas State's Steve Ramsey. A shrewd field general, Plunkett has a sharp eye for reading defenses, and his strapping size (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.) allows him to shake off tacklers as though they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds...
...play to be running on the boulevards this year, is the kind of illusionist who pretends to show the audience just how it's done. In Don't Wake Madame, he turns some show-business clichés upside down with his accustomed skill, but only to shake out the last sticky-sweet drops of sentimentality...
Butt, cuckold, buffoon-Hirsch gives Georges Dandin the engaging dignity of self-knowledge, the man who says his own name with the rueful shake of the head that makes it ring through the play like a bell, the shrewd peasant who knows he has made a bad bargain in a wife, the naif who thinks he can prove it to the parents from whom he bought...
Henry Watson passed up McDonald's for the Burger Cottage across the street. "This is the best strawberry shake I've ever had." he said. "It really tastes like strawberries...