Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto industry, the telephone system, the railroads. They were only twitchings, but not to be disregarded on that account. Another industrial convulsion such as shook the country in 1945-1946 would not only wreck the nation's prestige when prestige was so important in world politics, it might shake the whole rickety world right down to its boots...
...dance-named, oddly enough, "The Astaire"-is something like the "Shag," in which a dancer jumps from one foot to another as if trying to shake water from his ears. The teaching will be done by some 80 instructors. Astaire will do none himself...
...Austin reached out to shake a hand that wasn't there...
...teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...
...settled for two new jobs-production assistant to Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, and columnist for King Features. Together, they would pay her about $100,000 a year. When she had 'made up her mind, The Face, 32, telephoned the home folks in New York. Said she: "Hey, shake hands with the richest kid in town...