Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fall, Ivy League newspapers have begun to grumble about the fraternity system. Autumn is the rushing season for most fraternities; sophomores wander from house to house, shake hands with prospective brothers, examine the paddles on the wall, and then sit back and wait. At a school like Dartmouth, less than half can reasonably expect to pick lip a pin; at other schools, the proportion may be lower, Ivy newspapers have suddenly started trying to keep the proportion down...
...President seemed to be in a carefree and folksy mood when he began his long pilgrimage to shake the hand of General Douglas MacArthur. But once the presidential DC-6, Independence, left St. Louis, his jocularity vanished. At California's Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base he barely nodded to photographers. In Hawaii the next morning, Admiral Arthur W. Radford's pretty wife welcomed him according to island custom; when she put a lei around his neck and kissed his cheek, he reddened, took off the floral offering as if it were poison...
They used to go down to Taylor's home evenings and shake the house with their practice sessions. "The Taylors' was a proving ground for our band," Gifford explains. "We really started to play well in ensemble there." During this period Kennedy enjoyed going to the house at night to sit with the boys...
Then Murphy called 400 administrative heads of the force to a meeting in the barnlike line-up room at Headquarters, and kicked every last one of the city's 336 plainclothesmen back into uniform. It was the most drastic police shake-up in history. But Murphy made it plain that this was only a beginning. "In every instance where corruption exists," he warned, "the commanding officer . . . will be carefully investigated...
Burke to as short as Lowenstein and nearly as light. But if he is able to shake loose at all, he may eventually take over Isenberg's tailback spot, leaving the latter available for longer periods as backer...