Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilman worked calmly. He is what the trade calls a "spot bowler." Starting from the right of the alley, he takes four precise steps and fires for the one-three pocket. He once had one three-game score of 811. But this time he could not shake off Andy. The lead changed hands 14 times...
...there was more money in circulation than ever before, and few shoppers, even after days of eyeing high-priced goods, could shake off the desire to buy. Many attempted to solve the dilemma by taking extra-expensive articles in the hope of getting quality goods...
...Manchester Guardian accurately appraised such Soviet statements. It said: "They would like us to shake in our shoes. But if we remember some of the other things that are happening, we may feel that there is more weakness than strength in this aggressive tone...
...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
...hero, "Honest Gus" Burgoyne, was born over a saloon and "christened ... in honor of two men, either of whom might have been his father." As a small-town reporter, he learned how to shake down politicians; as city editor, he gained the confidence of the town's financial wizard, then bedded down in the bovine arms of the wizard's only daughter, Flora. "Brilliant things coruscated about her face and hair: flashing dollar signs...