Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
...turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook hands, didn't we?"). Later, when Cousins turned up in Dallas to speak at a meeting of the pacifist Society of Friends, local right-wingers tried to set up a boycott, went to Mr. De for support. Snapped he: "You'll see my answer in the morning papers...
This one I can't pass up. TIME, Nov. 12, says, "Estes Kefauver, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, factory gate." By comparison, our Multigraph running top speed at 6,300 impressions per hour goes Bang! Bang...
...workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...