Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Estes made the campaigningest campaign in U.S. history. He traveled 54,000 miles, shook an estimated 100,000 hands. He made 450 speeches in 38 states-but only a brief hello and goodbye in his own Tennessee. Maybe he would have helped there, but the fact was that the Democrats lost all but one of the 38 states where he did speak...
Even in the last week, Estes, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, fac tory gate. By election eve he was so fagged out that in introducing his family to a national TV audience he called the dog by his daughter's name, Diane. Yet at 2:30 a.m. he was winging southward for some unprecedented Election Day campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept...
...never at the University had grand opera been tried. And so it was that many skeptical heads shook last spring when a group of students formed The Harvard Opera Guild and planned their first production...
...Pearson: "Ike was hustled into his plane, the Columbine, without bidding goodbye to local dignitaries." The facts: Ike bade goodbye to state and local Republican leaders and 20 motorcycle police, shook hands with about 30 persons...
...next stop, Seattle, Ike . . . closeted himself in his suite for 24 hours, seeing no one but his family and physician." The facts: far from being closeted, the President visited with local candidates and leaders, addressed 125 members of the party's state finance committee at the hotel-and shook hands with all of them...