Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires this week, Juan and Eva Perón braced themselves to lend an ear to the voice of history, look fate in the eye and shake destiny by the hand. The stage was set for at least 2,000,000 Argentines to gather in a vast, "spontaneous" outpouring, and demand that Juan and Eva run for President and Vice President, respectively, in the November presidential elections...
...European campaigning ("minor league stuff"), Savitt had only a so-so record, actually lost six of seven matches (on clay) to Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup veteran. The losses did little to shake Dick's new-found faith in his ability to win, but they did create a jinx. Drobny beat him again in the quarter-finals of the French championships, a tournament that Savitt really wanted to win. He began to fret, decided he was over-tennised, and practically stopped playing for the whole month before Wimbledon...
Says Shields: "Dick is the first great player I've seen to stay close to the top of his game, and stay nervous throughout the match. Most players will be nervous at the start of a match. But they'll shake it. Usually, the sign of a better man will be that he will shake his nervousness off quicker...
...photographers (toward ward whom he usually is friendly), saying that he had two telephone calls and a party waiting for him. The party was for old friend George J. Schoeneman, retiring-chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, who is leaving just as the bureau is wading through shake-ups (in several cases with scandals attached) in St. Louis, San Francisco, Boston and New York...
...There were women everywhere. You couldn't move. They were trampling merchandise, standing on washing machines, on counters, everywhere. Some women yelled, 'Hey, Mario, be my love!' They started shoving. The Fire Department finally had to get them out. The ceiling was beginning to shake...