Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev's newest tactic to shake the free world was to give the West six months to make Berlin "a free city," disengaged from the cold war and demilitarized in the heart of Communist East Germany. It brought predictable cries from critics of the Western allies' basic positions-of-strength foreign policy that it was time to think through "flexible," "positive" solutions for the whole of divided Germany. Yet Khrushchev's belligerence was convincing evidence-particularly to West Germany-that the policy of making West Berlin a showcase of prosperous freedom was successful...
...Shake Charmer. In Norwich, Conn., Yvette Richard, 11, discovered that by standing on the lawn while whirling a hula hoop about her waist she could make worms rise from the earth all around...
...will take a while before we can get rolling," Weiland comments. "I'm trying to give all the fellows a chance in practice--we are carrying 24 on the squad right now--and some time is necessary to let everything shake down...
Down with the blintz-munching, spaghetti-slurping, model-T-riding, cow-milking, let-me-shake-your-wonderful-hand type of campaigner. Why not restrict these grotesque acts of idiocy to the first week of September, requiring thereafter that candidates think and speak...
...Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...