Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victor's Open Kitchen on the western edge of Batavia, N.Y., the breakfast order of poached eggs, toast and coffee was routine. But the customer obviously was not. While his eggs poached, he table-hopped to shake hands. He ducked behind the counter to greet the cook, the counterman, the waitresses and the busboy. For each, he flashed a broad smile, his forehead crinkled into wrinkles. "Hello, I'm Nelson Rockefeller," he said. "I'm running for Governor. It's a real pleasure to say hello to you." When the eggs were served, the candidate invited...
...check"). In Alfred "Rocky" popped a blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
...midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows) of the carny, they plunked their dimes down for Jennie Thurman, "The Girl in the Iron Lung." (Healthy Jennie, 17, "did have a touch of polio" once when...
...week's end, as they learned that Milwaukee's World Champion Braves had clinched the National League flag again, the Yankees were 7-5 favorites to shake off their miseries and win the series...
...reaction to Golden's confession was overwhelming. Neighbors stopped by to shake hands, telegrams poured in, both phones jangled incessantly. Financier Bernard Baruch, U.N. Mediator Frank Graham and Adlai Stevenson sent their firm support. Poet Carl Sandburg, who wrote the introduction to Golden's book, told a reporter: "This only ties me closer to him." Wired a New York friend: "So what else...