Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of the decision, unless upset by appeal to a higher court, would reach far beyond the university campus. It would undoubtedly shake the validity of the recent California law requiring a special oath of every civil defense worker. It might also influence the courts in other states (e.g., Texas and Colorado) which had imposed similar loyalty oaths...
...coal and no radically different foreign policy to propose. What is more, they are in no hurry to bear the onus which the Socialists must now assume for the higher taxes and dislocations of rearmament. Many would just as soon wait for the plum to fall without having to shake the tree...
...President called, "Well, here's the Boss," and bounced jauntily down the ramp to give her a hug and shake hands with his Cabinet officers. He felt fine, he told the reporters: "Any better and I'd need help." Then, the brief welcomes over, he said, "Come on, Missy, let's go home," and drove off to Blair House...
Wherever he goes, it is the association with laymen - often almost pathetically brief - that he savors most. His rather sad face lights up when he talks about the Pullman porter who came back three cars "to shake hands with my presiding bishop." As a chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains during World War II, he repeatedly went out of his way to make personal visits to the families of men he had met overseas...
...meddles in lives-with the rich wife who knows him for what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...