Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas airport, nearly 5,000 people were waiting. The President, in a dark blue suit, stepped from his plane smiling happily. He and Jackie were met by a committee that gave her a bouquet of red roses. Their car was ready to leave, but Kennedy had to shake hands with some voters. Jackie, her roses cradled in her left arm, also touched the outstretched hands. After a few minutes she started to walk away, but, noticing that her husband was still at it, smiled fondly, said "There he goes," and returned...
Just then another car drove up. A man got out and jumped over a three-foot-high rail. He broke through a cordon of Dallas cops-who were certainly not having one of their good weeks -and approached Oswald almost as though he were going to shake hands. He was Jack Ruby (born Rubinstein) a stocky, balding 50-year-old bachelor who owns a couple of Dallas strip joints, was known to cops as a publicity-seeking pest...
...want to encourage community development and to shake them out of their apathy," she said. "For years the government has been helping the Indians do almost everything, but perpetual paternalism can't develop self-reliance and initiative. We want to encourage the Indians to realize that they can organize programs for their own children, that they can assume responsibility and do something for themselves...
...fresh drama into the occasion by charging off to New Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window...
...when you are beaten for half an hour by a karate expert. 'Doing your time' is much more than a collegiate aspiration when you do it in a four-man cell with ten or twelve drunks and petty crooks who all know you're a "nigger-lover" and literally shake with their hate for you. Once out of jail, among the one group of whites, there began a withdrawal, a retreat, that was rationalized as a "waking up to the futility of demonstrations in this stronghold of southern racism and a turn to more realistic solutions to the problem." Kids...