Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City Council shake-up never happened last week. Neither the renegade Republican nor the precocious student won a place on the council, meaning that it is likely to be business as usual in Central Square. The two open spaces were filled by political veterans Marjorie Decker and Jim Braude while incumbent Katherine Triantafillou was bumped out in a narrow race with School Committee member David P. Maher...
...Harvard offense wasn't anything special, either. The offensive line, which gave up four quarterback sacks, left Wilford scrambling out of the pocket on more plays than he could shake a stick...
...there is any testament to Wolf's staying power inside the Gore campaign, it may be that she has survived every one of its shake-ups. That may be because she's indispensable--or perhaps it's just her deep cover. Not even newly appointed campaign manager Donna Brazile knew of Wolf's involvement until recently. In the leaner operation that Brazile is running out of Nashville, Tenn., everyone has to sacrifice. Brazile, no Beta herself, cut Wolf's pay to $5,000 a month...
Most of us don't think about it. The handshake is expected and is executed automatically in a ritual little babble of nicetomeetyouhowdoyoudo? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someone's extended hand, then the handshake would become an awkwardness and an issue, a refusal being an outright insult...
...that he is almost a candidate, how is the fussy, hygienic Donald to keep his sanity in an election year's orgies of grip-and-grin? Mingling with the unwashed, he will presumably shake tens of thousands of germy hands. The most graceful substitute--the Hindu namaste (slight bow, hands clasped near the heart as in prayer)--would not play well in American politics. One alternative might be to shake your own hand, brandishing the two-handed clutch in front of your face like a champ while looking the voter in the eye. No. Too much self-congratulation. A politician...