Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arriving spang on time at 7:50 p.m. in New Orleans' Union Terminal, the Crescent disgorges its passengers, many in search of taxis and buses and busses. An unhurried few, passengers and employees, linger on the platform to shake hands and say goodbye. Steward Steve Cosmos refuses a tip. "See you in Mexico," says the retired railroad man. "God bless!" says Luther King. That night, in the opulence of the Pontchartrain Hotel, the immobile voyager cannot sleep. He misses the creaks and bleeps and wee-hour talk of yesterday. Or maybe yesteryear? - Michael Demarest
...first foray into presidential politics in 1964, Wallace proved extraordinarily popular not only in the South but among disaffected whites in the North too. He asked them to "send a message to Washington." He promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...
...even looked at the music, Liszt's lengthy, difficult Legendes, in more than half a century. Yet when his ringers touched the keys, there came a burst of musical thunder, exploding octaves and a bass of such power and sonority that the Baldwin threatened to shake apart...
...nations. Abdul Aziz once railed at Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had gone to Riyadh to get the King to sign some kind of agreement: "Why do you always want us to sign something with a lot of fine print? Out here, we consider it enough to shake hands and be friends...
...have caused some movement. Lincoln promptly crossed his legs and watched. "That's it!" he exclaimed. "Now that's very curious, isn't it?" Not to Schwartz. The Marfan-caused defect, he points out, results in "aortic regurgitation," which causes pulses of blood strong enough to shake the lower...