Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among others seen in print last week on the subject of McCarthy's social standing: Eleanor Roosevelt. Asked if it were true that she had said she would shake hands with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky but not far with McCarthy, Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "As far as I can recall, I hae never refused to shake hands with anyone. I have shaken hands with Senator McCarthy a number of times and certainly would do so again. I have shaken hands with Mr. Vishinsky on a number of occasions, and I would certainly do so again...
Smiling, his broad peasant's face edged with long black hair, Mao came forward to shake hands with each member of the Laborite delegation; he inquired courteously after their health, and concerned himself whether or not they were enjoying their visit. Amid the City's glaze work and its splendid vases, cups of fragrant tea were served. Then Mao, flanked by the party's chief theoretician, Liu Shao-chi, and by Premier Chou Enlai, began to speak. Before them in a hall where Chinese emperors once received their vassals, Clement Attlee and his Britons settled back into...
...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
...motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with his family, six cars behind. On the rostrum, when Meek was introduced, he bounded out of his chair, waved to the crowd and turned to shake hands with Ike. Startled, the President remained seated...
...House & a Lot. In South Salem, McKay has a roomy, comfortable white shake house. One daughter lives there and another six blocks away. In the front hall is the familiar motto: "Home is where the heart is." Every room has some souvenir of McKay's life: a seal tusk, Eugene Peavine's trophies, family photos. Downstairs, in the basement playroom, hang Mabel McKay's blue ribbons (for cake), McKay's show ribbons (for Gene) and silly signs ("Danger-Hangover Under Construction...