Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formal speeches with government leaders, remained at the airport for 20 minutes to acknowledge the thunderous cheers ("Freedom! Freedom!") of some thousands of Ghanians massed behind a fence at the edge of the flag-ringed field to greet him. Quipped the Vice President, leaning over the white fence to shake hands: "In America, we call this the boardinghouse reach." By late this month, when Nixon plans to wind up his current trip, the new Nixon-style boardinghouse reach will have spread far and wide over Moslem and Negro Africa the personal good will of the no longer so distant...
Time and again, as the official motorcade edged its way through Casablanca's thronged streets, the smiling guest of honor left his blue Chevrolet convertible to mingle with the cheering crowds, shake hands, pass out ballpoint pens (left over from the U.S. presidential campaign) marked "Vice President Richard Nixon." Right beside him was Pat, with hard candies and bonbons for the children. Gashed Moroccan Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej, whose country was celebrating the first anniversary of its independence from France: "This is unprecedented...
...many of the words she has to speak, or-worse yet-to trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid, that disdainful glide, as of a sneering sleepwalker, might very well be addressed to her material. Even when shackled by it, she manages at moments to shake herself magically free; the grande dame lurches, the veiled maiden loops, culture splinters into anarchy. There are scattered glories with Actress Lillie as an airplane hostess croaking doom, or as a rajah's favorite, or as the girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing...
Last Saturday, at New Haven, Harrington was held to nine points by the close guarding tactics of Tom Sargent. If he can shake away a few more times tonight, and approximate the 20-plus points per game he has scored since becoming a starter, the team may have a good shot at a major upset...
...second half opened, the varsity's offense began to move. Bob Hastings, who had kept Harvard in the contest with five field goals in the first half, and Ike Canty began to shake Yale's tight man-to-man defense, and the varsity gradually closed...