Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the MIT players use a penholder grip. This grip, introduced by the team of the People's Republic of China, caused the Harvard team (which mainly use the traditional shake-hands grip), to go on the defensive...
Prosecutor Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called...
Harris followed the MBTA map yesterday afternoon as he appeared in stations at Park Street, Kenmore Square, Forest Hills and Government Center to shake hands and chat with supporters and subway riders...
Shapp's technique is to shake with his full hand and to bear down with his thumb on the well-wisher's muscle, and then "even a steel-worker couldn...
...know, you shake hands this far," Jackson said, interrupting to show Shapp how to use his finger-tips only handshake...