Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading about Pierre Poujade, one can understand how frighteningly amusing the rest of the world found the muscling antics of the Great McCarthio and his Yes Men jesters. I wonder, though, whether France is healthy enough to shake Poujade out of her hair as we seem almost to have accomplished with Tail Gunner...
Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...
...precise talker without much to say, a philosophizer whose philosophy did not clearly emerge-a man they did not really like or even understand. In Estes Kefauver they saw a big, friendly, folksy politician whose comfortable generalities were easy to take and whose warm hand was easy to shake. As reporters combed over the bones of the Minnesota contest, one voter after another spoke of Kefauver as "a down-to-earth man of the people...
While his margin was still rolling up in Minnesota last week, Estes Kefauver was following his hand westward across the U.S. He dropped in at Great Falls, Mont, to shake a few, flew on to Portland for a meeting of his supporters and finally landed in California for a six-day, 33-speech stint in the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. On a busy street in San Francisco the long Kefauver arm snaked up into the window of a big bus and caught the right hand of the startled driver, as Estes said: "I'm Estes Kefauver...
Back over the Amman airport, the plane's nose wheel stuck in the well. For 20 minutes Hussein circled the field, waggling the wings to try to shake the wheel down into position, was finally advised from the ground to use an emergency bottle of compressed air, which slammed the wheel into place with a shock that shook the plane like an explosion. Says the King airily: "All this worry about my flying is silly. I've taken off from the desert at night by the lights of automobile head lamps. I've flown with overweight loads...