Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rocking the boat can be frightening. But it is also freighted, as the best of the radicals insist, with a potential for enormous good for both sexes. As Kate Millett says: "We really don't have many fatuous hopes of taking over. We would like, very much, a fair shake. We are each half of a person, we are each less than we could be. If we did not have these rigid sexual roles, we would all have so much more room for spontaneous behavior?for doing things that we feel like doing, for following our own instincts, for being...
...daily "artist's development" etiquette lessons. Under Gordy's tutelage, the Supremes, as they called themselves, turned into the most immaculately coiffured, intricately turned-out trio since the McGuire Sisters. And they were ever so poised. The girls were taught how to sit properly, how to shake hands ("The firmness of the grip," says Diana, "is very important"), and how to climb up on a piano. When they started going out on concert tours, they went with a chaperone. "There has never been an ounce of scandal connected with the Supremes," boasts a Motown executive. "No talk about...
...they take the war here without question. Go into a restaurant, and the housewives talk of the price of food, of the growth of their children, of the problems of paying for college. If they mention the war at all, it is only to shake their heads and nod sadly. And to go on eating...
Your Essay "The Silent Generation Revisited" expressed so eloquently this sense of "non-belonging." However, we may have one last chance to shake off our do-nothing label. By taking the best from both generations, perhaps we can provide our children with those values that will bring them happiness...
...Ironically, the U.S. surplus of exports over imports rose by $300 million in the second quarter, to a $3.8 billion annual rate. Administration officials fear that friendly governments might even be angered enough to begin redeeming for U.S. gold the dollars that they now hold. Such a move could shake the world monetary system because the U.S. does not have anywhere near enough gold to buy back all the dollars that chronic balance of payments deficits have deposited abroad. The economic isolationism and trade wars of 40 years ago prolonged and deepened the world Depression of the 1930s; the post...