Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ironies of Owens' life are two-fold. Owens said upon his return from the Olympics that Americans had over-emphasized Hitler's refusal to shake his hand. After all, he added, in his own country Owens had to sit in the back of the bus. Ultimately, he said he was not considered an American athlete but a Black person. Owens' tragic death from lung cancer comes at a particular touchy time for the United States as president Carter and the Olympic Committee debate whether the country should enter the games scheduled for Moscow this summer...
Borrowing short-term money to finance long-term needs is not only expensive but inherently risky because the loans must continually be renewed at high rates. Financial experts fear that many small and even some big corporations, unable to continue borrowing, will go bankrupt. Their demise in turn may shake some thinly capitalized banks that will be stuck with "problem" loans. Says Don Jacobs, dean of the Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University: "We are headed for a paralysis of the financial markets. We will see red ink throughout the financial industry. It could be a disaster...
...another reason "they are not listening" is the unshakable problem of Kennedy's credibility. Even when he campaigns with Joan at his side, people keep expressing doubts about Chappaquiddick. Says one key adviser: "Until we can shake the moral issue, it is damn hard to make our substantive case." It may be unshakable. The New York Times last week front-paged a story on phone call records that apparently should have been part of the Chappaquiddick investigation but were not. Said an angry Kennedy: "There has been no family whose personal lives have been investigated as much...
Florida--haven for "old fogies," as they call each other behind closed elevator doors. You can just hear them over the muzak. "He's just an old fogie. His hands shake. He has liver spots. He is almost dead." Oh sunny sandy southern peninsula, home of The Fountainbleu, The Princess, The Bal Harbour Regency...
...That's Hans," whispered Alexis, pointing to the older man who was still trying to make goldilocks. "He's a famous tenor who sings in the National Opera." Hans could barely spare the time to shake my hand when Alexis introduced us, immediately striking up a conversation in German with my brother. Since I can barely find the bathroom in German, I wandered off with Margrit to meet a friend of hers who sat at the bar behind the crowd that gathered on the periphery of the dance floor. We pushed out way through a sea of psychotrops and down...