Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, after motoring up to Cambridge, Mass., where he dropped sons John and Adlai Jr. off at Harvard, Stevenson turned back to New York for a private confab with influential Democrats. This week, looking forward to the big push in Minnesota, he heads out to Minneapolis to shake as many hands as possible before the March 20 primary...
Each of the three speakers discussed his profession and cautioned dabblers that success in the theatre requires constant sacrifice. The College graduate, Anderson said, must "shake the ivory tower from his being...
...Premier, but had been literally sent to Siberia when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week's 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow, the first since Stalin's death...
Harry worked for Leighton in handling mail, keys, supervising cleaning, and "obliging all the boys," Mrs. Brown said. "You're only 65 once. They turned him out with cold feelings after 20 years. It makes us feel sad to meet him on the street. They didn't even shake his hand," she added...
...volumes, The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory, soon dispelled them. Even Sir Ernest Jelf, Senior Master of His Majesty's Supreme Court, examined Price's evidence and confessed himself "at a loss to understand what cross-examination could possibly shake...