Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble line...
...Tolstoy's severe test. For more than 40 years, her art helped finance the clinic maintained by her doctor husband in a Berlin slum, and she found many of her models in the clinic as well. Pitiful studies of the poor and starving, her pictures were designed to shake Christian consciences awake, and they...
...Shake not thy hoary locks at me," was formerly the attitude of the College male stranded in a desert of secondary school spinsters for summer study. Revisions in this view, begun last summer by some daring local observers, should continue in force if early reports of female summer attendance can be credited...
...Henry's limp hand." Now, did you or your reporter ever shake his hand...
...Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous pork barrel," charged that most of the Senators had put projects into it regardless of necessity or urgency...