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So Ms. Dewey heard this, and she shook her head in despair while fellow teachers were sort of cheering each other on and nodding approvingly.
That means that all of you who just shook hands are biochemically primed to like and want to help each other.
We can't have anything to do with you." (Laughter) So I paid for coffee that day — (Laughter) — and his parting comment as we shook hands was, "Listen, if you happen to raise any money out of this, we'll gladly take it."
And we sort of all choked up in the back of the taxi, and I didn't tell him who I was, because I didn't think it was appropriate, and I just shook his hand and I said, "Thank you so much.
So the ground shook in Managua 60 seconds after it hit the epicenter.
And so at once, we shook hands, and smiled, and I gave him my gift, and he told me I was a guest in his home, and we sat beside one another on a fabric couch.
The house shook as he stepped inside.
The girls just shook their heads, put them in their hands, and let me go my own way.
It shocked the world, it shook up the American government, and it made people ask a lot of questions, because the sheer amount of information that was let out, and the potential impacts, were significant.
During that time, he shook my hand on three occasions.
So what if I told you that the person whose hands you just shook actually didn't wash their hands when they were coming out of the toilet?
His classroom sometimes shook with the sound of bombs and shelling, and his mother told me, "Every day, I would say to him every morning, 'Honey, please don't go to school.'"
We let go, he shook my hand, said he gave me my respect, gave me a cigarette and sent me on my way.
I shook it off, whatever.
The successful joint mission, known as Apollo-Soyuz, in which an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz craft and the two crews met, shook hands, and exchanged gifts, marked the end of the space race in 1975.
And at the end of the reading, Katharine Kidde of Kidde, Hoyt & Picard Literary Agency, walked straight up to me and shook my hand and offered me representation, like, on the spot.
In the courtroom, he went up to the South African Rugby Union's lawyers, shook them by the hand and conversed with them, each in their own language.
I clammed up and violently shook my head in protest.
So against religious, nationalist and racial purists of all kinds, can you make his story a part of your own, not because he happened to be a Muslim, not because he happened to be an Arab, but because he was a human being with some very good ideas that shook his world and ours.
And she shook her head and said, "Oh, these Americans.
My son looked at me, shook his head, and said, "Thanks, Mom."
We shook hands, we broke bread.
In spite of my "girly man" hat, crocheted from plastic shopping bags, they shook my hand.
In those days, one hid much else as well: grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved, and you could hug another man, then hold on for a moment, then even kiss (your fathers bristles white and stiff now).
Chak Ek’s fifth and final victim was a mysterious stranger from the west, and his death in the heart of the dry season shook the order established by Hun Ajaw.
The fruits of my rivals, I shook from the tree.
And what would happen if they climbed on the underside of that leaf, and there was some wind, or we shook it?
And I had you, and I shook off that sexist language that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs daily, and made photographs of my pregnant belly as I prepared for graduate school.
And God shook his head and said, "Not this year, not this decade, perhaps not even in [your] lifetime."
The mind is a plastic snow dome, the most beautiful, most interesting, and most itself, when, as Elvis put it, it's all shook up.
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