Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bumpers' campaign style is awesome, even in the tall-tale-loving, flesh-pressing South. He did not just shake a voter's hand and pass on. He found out the man's name, rolled it over his tongue a few times, inquired about his relatives and, more often than not, produced a better-than-average anecdote about a mutual acquaintance. He was careful to stick to his political ground rules: never attack an opponent, never start an argument, never take a stand on an issue when it can be avoided...
...football will continue to be played, and with gusto. For Kent Waldrep, however, the game won't go on. Last Saturday wasn't just another loss, something he could shake off by mid-week. It's just sad, pure and simple, that a young man has been so severely incapacitated while trying to carve out his own bit of gridiron glory...
...victory speech Dukakis said that he had a great deal of work to do beginning in January, but for all those supporters who waited to shake his hand afterwards, their work was over and they were very proud
...There is the possibility of a letdown, but I don't think it will happen," said Ford. "I think the team realizes that they can shake everybody up in New England, so they go out there with that little extra bit of desire and really want to win "every game...
...bean... I am a cranshaw melon." The characters announce their problems rather than portray them, and then move to renounce them, rather than resolve them. When Toni's friend Nina announces "I have confidence, I'm wild, I'm radiant, I'm magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting "Be it, don't say it." Nina talks incessantly about her daughter, who we are to believe is the most important person in her life--and yet we never see her daughter on stage, let alone the interplay between the two. We likewise never meet Toni's husband...