Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast-moving man with a bristling crew cut and a businesslike air. His days were an 18-hour succession of Republican breakfasts, Kiwanis Club luncheons, women's teas, greetings on Main Street, conversations in corn fields and gasoline-station stops. The gas stations were important. There he would shake hands with the man at the pump, greet the mechanic, stride into the diner for a word with the fry cook and a cup of coffee with the customers. The Iowa traveler was Leo Hoegh (pronounced hoig), and he was engaged in one of the most complex processes in American...
...most asinine proposal ever brought before a legislative body," Vellucci has this to say: "Sometimes administrators become procrastinators--that goes both for Dr. Pusey and for city manager Curry. Sometimes they intend to do something, but they don't get around to doing it. The only way to shake up the administration of Harvard is to use the tactics I have been using...
...Russia's bulky Dmitry Shepilov, jutting tall above his clump of Soviet assistants, moved about with a big smile and gladhand. Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak popped cherubically into place. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles, arriving at the last moment, moved coldly past Shepilov to shake the hand of France's moon-faced Christian Pineau. For the instigators of the session, Great Britain and France, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd leaned forward and put the issue: "We are determined to uphold our rights, rights properly secured and guaranteed, to free transit through this international waterway...
...Adlai Stevenson getting a fair shake from what the Democrats like to call the "one-party press"? Editor & Publisher put the question last week to the Democratic candidate himself. Said Stevenson: "Newspaper coverage of my 1956 campaign has been generally good. In fact, I think it has been better than in 1952. Almost all the newspapermen traveling with me have consistently turned in excellent reports, reports that are as complete and well-written as the rigors of campaigning permit, reports which I think fairly represent what I have said and done . . . [But] there are still far too many...
...Local Government Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...