Word: shook
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...Your report on "Blacks" [April 5] shook me off my feet when it said that the demand that the U.S. take the lead in politically and economically isolating South Africa was "unrealistic." Does economic necessity really endear the South African to Americans? Paradoxically, is it not American financiers who helped revitalize South Africa's post-Sharpeville economy? Or is it that Mr. Nixon's Silent Majority might be alienated? South Africa also has a Silent Majority, which unfortunately happens to be black...
...Wall Street seems quite certain how to welcome a Nice Guy from Texas. A banker sent Perot a cowboy suit, and an F.I. du Pont salesman ordered a pair of tasseled loafers for his new proprietor. Perot showed up in Manhattan wearing his usual Middle America business togs and shook hands with each of the 1,500 F.I. du Pont employees working in the head office. "I wanted to tell them that they are terribly important to the future of the firm," he explained with his ever-present country charm...
DRESSED in an austere gray tunic, Premier Chou Enlai, 73, moved along a line of respectfully silent visitors in Peking's massive Great Hall of the People. Adhering to strict alphabetical order, he shook hands first with the Canadian table tennis team, then the Colombians, the English and the Nigerians. Finally he stopped to chat with the 15-member U.S. team and three accompanying American reporters, the first group of U.S. citizens and journalists to visit China in nearly a quarter of a century. "We have opened a new page in the relations of the Chinese and American people...
Photographer Frank Fischbeck recalled: "Everywhere the people were warm, healthy, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, with white teeth. I could see that through the lens all the time. They were apparently very happy. When they shook your hand they crushed it. You had to applaud in greeting and just stay away from shaking hands. They seemed so happy to see foreigners. The interpreters with us said, 'We hope more people are coming.' They didn't seem to know quite what was happening or whether more people would be coming to China. We assured them that there would...
Hoping to pull off an upset today. M.I.T. was definitely shocked and depressed at the ease with which Harvard disposed of the possibility of an Engineer win. "Oh Jesus, I can't, I mean I just can't say anything now," M.I.T. coach Francis O'Brien mumbled as he shook his head in disbelief...