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Word: shaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamie smiled her way through some 200 persons spilling around the sidewalk (mostly women and children) and entered the Congrelephant. She pinned a Harris-for-Congress button on her coat and began to shake hands with the women crowding into the bus, which had been redone into a sort of traveling living room. One of the first housewives in line was Mrs. Robert M. Johnson, who brought her son Randy. "You don't know what this means to us," she gushed. "You see, Randy was born the day Ike was elected President." He got a hug from the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Lady with a Doughnut | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Coach Bruce Munro may have to change his lineup for today's game if starting fullback John Hadik does not shake off an attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Plays Host To Soccer Team | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

...filled all 5,200 seats (at $1.25 to $1.60, children half price), and later the total was swelled by 1,300 standees. Things got under way when beefy Wally Fowler, a bushy-browed master of ceremonies from Possum Trot, Ga., asked everybody to "turn left, then turn right and shake hands; I want you to be good neighbors." Then he led the crowd in Love Lifted Me and Amazing Grace. After a short talk about the evils of materialism and intellectual confusion, he led another hymn, shouting between the lines: "Don't you just love this fellowship together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prayers & Popcorn | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...mufflers and other silencing devices were developed under the direction of President Ralph S. Evinrude, son of Evinrude's founder. But the move to silence the entire line of Evinrudes and Johnsons was made after Joe Rayniak took Outboard. Marine's helm in a management shake-up a year and a half ago (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Under Rayniak, 64, who started as a toolmaker, the company spent some $2,000,000 in research on sound.* With its silent motors, Outboard, Marine, which now has about half of the market, expects to help boost the number of outboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Hush Money | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Fourth R. Sunday morning, naturally enough, is devotional. In the earlier hours, radio religion ranges from the evangelical thunder of Pasadena's Rev. Herbert Armstrong ("Catastrophic happenings will soon shake the world!") to the fundamentalist tenets of Grand Rapids' Dr. Richard De Haan ("Read the Bible closely and never out of context . . ."). Television's religious note is more often interdenominational and inspirational. This week Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) and his wife devoted 30 filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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