Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international Big Meeting? The threat should have paralyzed the pesky Gaullists, for the honor of France was involved. But the gold dust of political office is a notorious corrupter of strong men. With De Gaulle himself retired and back on the reservation, the boys were just itching to shake down the town. The Assembly voted, and the Mayer government fell, 328-244. It was the 18th to fall since...
...wealthy conservatives in opposition to Peron's regime. They were hauled off to the 17th precinct station, where the electric needle is one of the approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically cut grey suits, supposedly...
Back in Independence, tanned and hearty after a month's vacation in Hawaii, Harry Truman celebrated his 69th birthday by digging through a mountain of greeting cards, working on his memoirs, dishing out some political advice to a high-school senior during his morning stroll ("Shake everybody's hand and ask about their friends and relatives, and you'll get along"). Next day he told a reporter that he was just coasting before getting back into politics, not as a candidate himself-in fact, he said, he would never run for office again-but as a whistlestopper...
...from being a routine triangle drama is the wit and wisdom with which Author Machado embroiders his plot. As in Epitaph of a Small Winner, he breaks into his story with joshing asides to the reader, e.g., "Perhaps I'll scratch this out when it goes to press," "Shake your head, reader. Make all the gestures of incredulity there are." His piece of advice hardest to follow: "Throw away this book...
...Kyes, his boss, Charles Erwin Wilson, and Wilson's boss, Dwight Eisenhower, are all convinced that the nation needs to get more defense per dollar of expenditure. But the Defense Department is so vast, so complex and so procedure-ridden that to grab it and shake out some of its abundant water takes a man with both managerial talent and toughness. Kyes has both. He is calm and affable, but when Pentagonians call him "Jolly Roger" they mean not that he is jolly but that he is as tough as a pirate...