Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Manring: "They come up and stick their burp guns in our stomachs with one hand and with the other they reached out like to shake hands, but they grabbed our rifles. One jerked on mine and I jerked back. Then he jerked again. I said to myself, 'This ain't no time to argue,' and let go. They stripped us down and took our helmets. They took my watch and billfold that had $11.81 in it. My girl's picture was in it, too. They took that out and looked at it and kept...
...back on nonessential spending "is what the citizen is expected to do in his budget when his taxes are increased. He is entitled to wonder why, if he is to forego some of his spending plans, the Government administrator cannot do the same. He is entitled to expect a shake-out in nonessentials-and everyone knows they are there-before resort is had to tax increases." The Letter said that big cuts could be made in farm price supports, federal mortgages on housing, public works, EGA spending, and Fair Deal programs for health, education, etc. Total savings: $5 billion...
...vice-presidency into the presidency just after the crash, kept paying full dividends for three years. By thus building up good will, and by relentless plugging of the firm's soundness with an ad he thought up during a Sunday church service ("Seven major depressions have failed to shake the stability of this company"), Smith in 21 years had quadrupled New England Mutual's assets (to $1.1 billion) and increased the insurance in force 2½ times (to $2.8 billion...
...Habits. Congress had reacted to the crisis quickly and well, but it did not shake all of its old habits. The House completed action on a bill cutting excise taxes, thereby restricting revenue at a time when more taxes would probably be needed; then dispersed for its ten-day Fourth of July holiday. The Senate calendar was still clogged with Fair Deal measures which had been debatable before, and were now clearly luxuries...
...visitors-more than on any day since he became President. They included labor politickers, 4-H Club campers, editors of business magazines. The bigger crowds he led out into the rose garden, where, standing on a wrought-iron park bench, he explained that he'd like to shake each & every hand, etc., but couldn...