Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match on the second, finished his morning round with a 69 that left him 5 up. In the afternoon, he picked up three more holes on the first nine. The holes ran out at the 29th green. Little sank a two-foot putt and Goldman stepped for ward to shake hands...
...second year of the War found France worrying more than usual about her declining birth rate. ... A blackmailing publisher of a small Paris paper hit upon a plan to shake down the firm of Pernod Fils, large absinthe manufacturers, by threatening to campaign for the prohibition of absinthe. His plan of attack took advantage of the following popular beliefs...
Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...
...spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
...estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig...