Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story tells of a man who approaches his rebbe with a dilemma. "I have slandered my colleagues," the man says. "What can I do to take back what I have said?" The rebbe replies, "Take a pillow from your house, bring it outside into the center of town, and shake it as hard as you can until all the feathers blow away. Then come back to me." The man, impressed that his problem has such a simple solution, does exactly as the rebbe tells him, shaking out the feathers in the pillowcase until they have all blown away, carried...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...group of our friends, Asian-community people, went to attend the convention," Huang said last week in a deposition taken in a civil suit against the Commerce Department brought by Judicial Watch, a nonprofit conservative group investigating Democratic fund-raising practices. "So in one of the hotel lobbies we shake hands, and that...
Dunlap, 59, is a talkative, roll-up-the-sleeves corporate turnaround specialist who burst onto the scene with a remarkably short, lucrative and controversial tour as CEO of venerable Scott Paper in 1994 and '95. The maker of Viva and ScotTowels asked him to shake things up. So Dunlap sold billions of dollars in assets, chopped 35% of the work force, paid down debt and refocused the firm. By the time Scott was sold to Kimberly-Clark late last year, its stock had tripled, and Dunlap, via generous stock options and grants, had tucked away $100 million for himself...
...takes an old guy. To shake up network "news," that is. It's not often that we at Dartboard hook up to the tube. (We prefer to be wired to the Internet.) But we couldn't have been more pleased to see the cutting edge of election coverage on ABC, just past 12:30 a.m. on election night this past Tuesday. David Brinkley, the veteran anchor, took the president to task for being the do-nothing milk-mustached little boy that he is. "We can all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full...