Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality, in which 200 soldiers die each day. With Thieu out of power, maybe it could even come true. Anyway, Ngo Cong Duc explained it patiently. Twice he told the woman from the Christian Science Monitor that the Third Force did not plan on taking power from Thieu, and shook hands with some of the reporters. As the other reporters left, he smiled politely: he verged on seeming embarrassed...
People on the street recognized Restic--"Hi, coach," a student said as he passed, and another man shook hands with him--but nobody seemed to know Dave Matthews, the scrappy guy in the blue parka, the Jeff in this Mutt and Jeff...
...light touch shook me from sleep. I looked up and a smiling Cuban host handed me a snack tray. We were all served cold cut sandwiches, beer and a strong fruit juice. After eating, I walked down the aisle and talked with the rest of the students. Some were joking, trying to fight off their weariness. I looked at the dozens of boxers who slept, ate, joked, played guitars or watched us. Cuba was hosting the first World Amateur Boxing Tournament. From all over the world, boxers were coming to Cuba to fight...
...have charisma, but Faisal emanates a dignity that stamps him as special. He looks older than 68. His face is deeply wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
...around the nation. Jobert, who currently holds no government post, looks like a candidate running hard for office, even though it is 6½ years before the next presidential election and three years before the next scheduled vote for the National Assembly. During one barnstorming day last week, Jobert shook hands at the town market at Mirepoix, visited a farm and a textile plant, lunched with about 50 supporters in Foix, drank a glass of wine at the local weekly newspaper in Limoux, visited a wine cave, autographed 100 copies of his memoirs at a bookstore in Carcassonne, dined with...