Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling I was watching the last, unnoticed stretch in the return of a handful of modern-day Odyssei. The man had left Greece with his wife at the age of 18, after fighting with the partisans in a civil war that crept out of the mountains to shake the country all over again after the Allied liberation of 1944. This man was one of many communists finally forced to flee, who thought they would die outlaws...
...Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...perhaps as many as 100 million Americans will be watching. A large percentage of them might well decide which man to support on the basis of what they see that night. Even though there will be two more debates between Carter and Ford, first impressions are difficult to shake, as the 1960 opening debate between Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon demonstrated. It may well be that the Philadelphia showdown is a more crucial test for Carter than it is for Ford...
...Sasser, 39, who has a mop of hair and a smile reminiscent of John F. Kennedy, is running an energetic campaign for the U.S. Senate. Says he: "If I take a day off, I just get restless and run out of the house to find a hand to shake." Sasser, a onetime legislative assistant to the late liberal Senator Albert Gore, is given a good chance against the man who unseated Gore in 1970: Republican Senator William Brock, 45, who is himself an aggressive, well-financed campaigner...
...touches and consoles. These days "country " is the handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular as ever. No single style or performance can typify all of country music. But one strain of country is something old and new called honkytonk. It is both...