Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell beat out of me," Republican Senator Barry Goldwater bluntly told the group, which was holding public hearings on how to reduce the risk of assassination attempts. He added: "I question whether any candidate, especially an incumbent, really has to get out and shake hands...
...symbolic of getting close to the people; 2) it raises the candidate's own spirits-there is no greater tonic than to go out and shake hands with a lot of smiling people who are potential voters; 3) and now, to prove you're brave...
...that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...
...There's no way you can shake enough hands to be elected President," scoffs Billy Joe Camp, an aide to Alabama Governor George Wallace, who might scuttle Carter's claims to even a regional following by thrashing him whenever they meet in Southern primaries. Yet there is no denying that wherever Jimmy Carter goes, his ready smile and unaffected intelligence win friends...
...apparently for no reason other than that the main entrance was flanked by poles flying foreign flags. The U.S., which did not join in the international denunciations, was pointedly spared such treatment. One group of young Franco supporters paused during a march in Madrid's diplomatic quarter to shake hands with the machine-gun-toting Spanish policemen guarding the U.S. embassy...