Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest tennis exhibition of her life, ran out a love set, allowed only two games in the third. When the final point was scored, she yielded for the first time in her career to the impulse of savage exultation that makes the Indian prance, the schoolboy yowl, the boxer shake his gloves over his head. She threw down her racket and leaped in air and cried out shrilly before she crossed to shake the hand of Miss McKane...
Statisticians are declaring that the housing shortage is over, and numerous "To Rent" signs confirm their statements. Yet the astonishing construction boom continues. Likewise, old stockbrokers shake their heads and require larger margins, but stocks continue to march upward...
...crushed her by accident. Monsieur Ripois knew better-much better. Pilfering meanly from life, he had failed to perceive and accept its rich free gift. The grief that came upon him, the suffering through another that he learned, was too great for even his cynical, acquisitive ego to shake off. Returning to France to beg on the roads, thought he: "How careful you have...
...twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They saw Gibbons shake his head. The bell rang. Gibbons stood up. He took a step, smacked his smirking opponent (a one-time Marine) on the right temple. The other, angered, beat a furious rataplan upon the ribs of Gibbons. Wearily, with the immeasurable pathos of fatigue, Gibbons lifted his left fist, lunged at Tunney...
...been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison...