Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate refused to speak to the old man. He drew the loudest cheers of all when he promised: "We will not in this state see our segregated way of life broken down." When Gartin finished speaking, women rushed to kiss him on the cheek and men to shake his hand...
...decision was to handle the matter as a vote of confidence. "It is rationally unthinkable," commented Finance Minister Edgar Faure with a shake of his head, "but the fall of this government is passionately wanted." Word from Geneva. The desire of the Assembly might not be rational, but it was plain. The Laniel government had refrained from doing much of anything about anything, so as to offend...
...Seats. Desperately, the Labor Party fought to shake itself free from the unwelcome Communist leeches. Evatt was especially worried because his party depends on the large Catholic vote in Australia's big cities. "I tell Menzies and his agents," cried Evatt, in righteous anger, "that if they impute to me ... any sympathy with Communism, they are the vilest liars in the world...
...courtroom Broun's biographer, Dale Kramer, offered his hand to Pegler, was rebuffed when Pegler thundered:"I don't want to shake hands with you. You're a bastard." "You're the same, " answered Kramer. Pegler hastily summoned a court attendant, pointed at Kramer and said: "This man was threatening me." Then the two were haled into the judge's chamber and ordered not to speak to one another again in the courthouse...
...rule of Paraguay's aging (71) President Federico Chaves. The little (pop. 1,500,000), landlocked republic is totally dominated by the government's Colorado party, and Chaves, as party boss, had been tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...