Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, where a summertime war on bookies brought on a shake-up in the police department, Mayor William O'Dwyer made realistic reply when he was asked if he thought a shake-up could really kill bookmaking: "I see very hopeful signs of that in the atom bomb...
Koreans liked him. When he appeared in public, young Koreans crowded around, as eager to see Lyuh as American kids are to shake hands with Babe Ruth. He was head of the Korean Amateur Athletic Association, helped make the marathon Korea's national sport...
...Government, sat at lunch with two friends. Unannounced, an officer of Rumania's S.S.I, (secret political police) walked in, arrested Maniu. As he departed, the S.S.I, man offered his hand to one of Maniu's friends, saying: "I suppose you don't want to shake hands with a man who is doing this?" Replied the friend: "Oh, that's all right. I'm a surgeon-I've got blood on my hands...
...arrests were accompanied by a rat-a-tat fire of Moscow-inspired Groza decrees: drastic shake-up of the Ministry of Industry to insure adherence to Communist economics; virtual nationalization of industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...
...fellow Americans merely as a "nature writer." His short essay was published and sowed broadcast in the U.S. by fanatical anarchists of the Emma Goldman period without any effect whatever on our affairs. Not until the essay fell into the hands of Gandhi did the seed sprout to shake the British Empire. OTTO McFEELY Oak Park...