Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handily won both the Democratic nomination and the general election. But infinitely more important to his long-term ambitions was the advice given him early in that senatorial campaign by Nashville Tennessean Publisher Silliman Evans Jr. and Campaign Manager Charles Neese. They told him that if he could shake at least 500 hands a day until election time he could beat the Crump machine. He did-and won-and it has since been a slugabed campaign day that has not seen him pump at least 500 hands...
...usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping away with both fists, looked over at me, a little annoyed. Above the hubbub of wind, propellers and introductions, he called out, 'Honey, why can't you shake hands with all these good people...
...placid and happy as ever-but inwardly he was beginning to boil. Campaigning with Adlai was all right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what he set his sights on as a boy, but it will do-for a while. If the Democrats win, Kefauver...
Wide, Wide, Shake...
...leather jacket and black wool slacks. I looked like a motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor. It wasn't until I'd finished that I realized what had happened. Then I started to shake, and I passed out and started to cry." Last month Eydie was back at the Copa as a headliner...