Word: shakin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is sprinkled with homey detail. "What's shakin', chiefy baby?" is Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held back only...
Trouble was, they could never match the heat of the performers. Hetling is that the early rockers come on as strong now as they ever did. Berry, doing a mean strut and split to Sweet Little Sixteen; Jerry Lee Lewis, ripping through a typically delirious rendition of Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On; Holly, singing Peggy Sue straight into the TV camera as if he wanted to short out the cathode-ray tubes: nothing cute, quaint or antique about any of this...
...anyway, the three of us decided to check out the Boston disco scene, to do sorta a "state of the art" type piece, see how the booties were shakin...
...rare occasions the women replied in bitter kind: "Male Chauvinists Better Start Shakin'-Today's Pig Is Tomorrow's Bacon." But mostly the demonstrations were signally good-natured, marked by cheerful and witty posters: "No Vietnamese Ever Called...
...three years as Governor of Florida, rambunctious Republican Claude Kirk Jr. has made an antic art of what he calls "confrontation politics." Kirk frankly describes himself as a "tree-shakin' son of a bitch," and he has proved it repeatedly in headline-grabbing performances that range from the 1967 Jacksonville rally, at which he faced down Black Nationalist Rap Brown, to his performance last January on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he appeared waving a petition against recent desegregation rulings...