Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face was drawn and racked with grief. He looked older than when I had seen him up close during the visit of former President Nixon last February. Hua then appeared to be imperturbable and placid. Despite the anguish on his face, Hua's gestures were certain and he shook hands firmly. Yet the immensity of the challenge he faces was etched into his features, lines of tension and shock betraying deep emotion and pain...
...soap" or "pretty as a speckled pup." It does not rain in the South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call...
...Talmadge, an on-and-off Governor of Georgia for many years in the 1930s. His son, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, makes a then-and-now comparison: "In my father's day, you had big rallies at the county courthouse and, if you could afford it, you had barbecues. You shook every hand you could find, and it was all face to face. It's all changed now. You are talking to people sitting quietly in their living rooms. The atmosphere of the old public meeting is gone. You have to be attractive physically and look good. Abraham Lincoln wouldn...
Last June the paltry returns brought Frix to the point of leaving the land a second time. He advertised his farm for sale for $75,000, found a buyer and shook hands on a deal That very day, however, Judy was rushed to the hospital to give birth to their first son, Joshua. So, says Frix "I called the man up and told him the deal was off. I told him we had a son and I wanted to see if Joshua wanted the farm...
...patrolman rolled down his window, shook the man's hand, and began to converse heatedly with him, long after the light ahead of him had changed. Middle-Eastern music blared from "A Nubian Notion," an import variety store across the street. Other drivers behind him began honking their horns, and so the officer moved...