Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the biggest-name politicians could shake the voters' "show-me" spirit. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton all campaigned for the Republican candidate in New Jersey's gubernatorial election-yet the Democratic incumbent piled up the biggest plurality in the state's history. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy lined up behind Democrat Abe Beanie in New York City-yet in Lindsay's shadow their en comiums sounded as if they had come from the party manual. "Look at Hubert Humphrey," chortled House Republican...
...tasks. But when Gottfried finds something to praise, he can be almost lyrical in his delight. About last season's Fiddler on the Roof, he wrote: "To see Zero Mostel dance is to see an angel in underwear. There is nobody else in the world who can shake a belly slowly...
...some of it three years overdue. In home port, after months at sea, only the officers set foot on land. Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue. Messes began with a ritual tattoo as men banged their biscuits on the table to shake loose the vermin...
...willing to give every man an equal shake. Economically, it's high time we judged people as individuals...Educationally, too. Every other way except socially...
...Dodgers or the Twins. He was relieved--glad, it seemed, to talk about something besides politics. "The Twins, of course," he replied. "Why, they're all from Washington. They were there when I was there." He leaned forward, as if to let me in on the latest Kremlin shake-up, and confided almost in a stage whisper, "I'd be for the Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball...