Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Canadian border (where Nancy spoke rusty French) to Massachusetts. They would stop their borrowed car on the outskirts of each town and walk up Main Street, introducing themselves to the store owners, shoppers, cops and kids. In the cities, they headed for newspaper offices and courthouses to shake more hands. In Manchester (pop. 82,732), Kefauver walked through a slaughterhouse, a shoe factory, a brush plant, an insurance office and several mills. Beside each workman he stopped to shake hands and say: "My name is Senator Kefauver, and I'd appreciate your help next Tuesday." Or simply...
...going got rougher. At one point, Morris complained that his questioner of the moment-Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy -"is a terrier. He likes to shake the animal...
They say that Ike is dynamite on television, and Kefauver can win votes with the shake of a hand, and that Taft and Truman reap ballots by the bushel with their blunt, give-'em-hell type campaigning. But the most important single factor in the November presidential election may be not the popularity of any of the candidates, but the will of the man everybody hates--Joe Stalin...
...Will To Fight. At Ankara's Esenboga military airfield, Ike was welcomed by a surging crowd of photographers, an honor guard of the Turkish army and a corps of diplomats who had braved the razor winds to shake his hand. "Turkey," he told them, "has proven herself to be a democratic country [with] a very important strategic position in the Atlantic Treaty...
...election again gives Harry S. Truman the opportunity to lead our nation, will he have the courage to rise and shake himself free from this bondage, and let nothing interfere with what he says is his greatest desire, to help bring peace to the world? If not, then pray God to send us a leader who has the character and the courage to meet the emergency that is upon...