Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything is scarce but starvation and disease. But with Macias gone, if not in captivity, Guineans were jubilant. Foreigners arriving at the Malabo airport last week were greeted by smiling citizens who were eager to shake hands. Their message, as one young radio mechanic expressed...
...Guevara. Thus it comes as no surprise that Houdini is suffused with a romantic-and at times sentimental-populism. In the final scene, Houdini appears from beyond the grave with the message that "there is no heaven but the people/ Let the people of the world/ shake off their chains/ and sing." To move from a vaudeville artiste slipping out of handcuffs to this kind of cosmic hymn is a long leap-too long. Except for some passing swipes at the police, war and poverty, Mitchell and Schat never specify the nature of the people's chains...
Before the hard sell could really get under way, however, Carter had to finish the administrative shake-up that had swept five Cabinet members out of office the previous week, leaving some major vacancies in the Executive Branch. The President succeeded in attracting a remarkable and impressive variety of new talent to his Administration. The major newcomers...
...first casualty of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet shake-ups was the momentum that he had been building behind his staggeringly expensive, exceedingly complex and long overdue new energy program. That is doubly unfortunate, because the damage was self-inflicted, and even more because the plan makes a start on attacking a problem that will continue to menace the U.S. long after the switches in the Cabinet have faded in significance...
...Byrne, who recently ordered an end to round-the-clock police protection for Michael Bilandic, his wife and their eight-month-old son, showed up at a block party in the Bilandic's Bridgeport neighborhood. Spotting her honor, whom Bilandic accuses of vindictiveness, Heather Bilandic rushed up to shake a fist in Byrne's face and scream "How dare you do this! What are you trying to do to my baby!" Byrne bristled, bit a normally sharp lip and moved away...