Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, it never even occurs to me to shake hands or salute with my left hand. I long ago learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...
...different from, and inferior to, the concentrated, strictly organized, but striking sound of early black rock and roll of the Chuck Berry-Fats Domino-Little Richard variety--a sound which had its greatest impact among the swaggering, brash young British proletariat. When the white working classes in America finally shake off their acquiescence and become rebels against society I will expect to hear them produce rock to equal British rock. Till then we must see to it that music masquerading as rock and roll does not come to dominate the American scene...
...Flash Gordon and Captain Kirk," read the banners. As the crowd roared, the astronauts were greeted by NASA's Robert Gilruth, by their wives and by most of the astronaut corps. Spectators pushed through police lines to touch the sleeves of the astronauts' blue flight coveralls, to shake their hands and to ask for autographs. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were clearly moved by the heroes' reception. "At 2 in the morning," said Borman, "I simply expected to get in my old blue bomb [his 1955 Chevrolet] and go home...
...known world. It was rather the spiritual and intellectual challenge with which it shook that ancient, flat, small, circumscribed, warring village that was the world before Columbus. Thus, the age of space that emerged in the last days of 1968 may offer spiritual and intellectual challenge that will shake the new, vast, complex, circumscribed, warring cosmopolis that was the world before Apollo...
...biggest economic shake-up of Gomulka's reign, Jedrychowski's No. 2 man and two Deputy Premiers concerned with economic affairs were given other jobs. Appointed to the planning commission were three outside men - including a new chairman, Economist Jozef Kulesza - whose views appear to be more flexible than those of their predecessors. In addition, Politburo Member Boleslaw Jaszczuk was given the task of overseeing all economic development in Poland. Whether the new men can engineer the sweeping changes that Poland really needs remains to be seen. But the switches seem to indicate that the regime has finally...