Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that . . . some operators in a clothing store shook down our visitor for $1.50 to get his new trousers fixed. When I asked a Russian friend about this, he said: 'It must have made him feel right at home.' The 'shake' is not unknown in Moscow, as most foreigners find out. I can compliment Mr. Poltoratsky's wisdom in buying a pair of trousers in New York. The Russians turn out millions of pairs a year, but their bottoms all have a tendency to bell out, like the ones Harold Teen used to wear, and still...
...think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...given to Class representation. The Council, although seemingly nullifying some ten-weeks work of its committee, has actually taken a long range point of view in realizing that Class currents, totally disrupted by the war, will again flow strongly in the mind of the undergraduate when the classes shake out into their normal order...
...hasn't yet made up her mind to come down again. Six hundred years ago her Viking ancestors on the craggy basalt archipelago, jutting sharply from the sea 250 miles north of Scotland, came under Danish rule. They haven't yet made up their minds to shake...
Fenced Out. The fourscore casualties of Field's big shake-up got double severance pay. But the left-wingers among them raised an anguished outcry: lean, thick-lensed Executive Editor Eli Zachary Dimitman, they complained, had eased them out and kept conservatives on. Actually the ax had fallen right & left. In the Sun's foreign staff of seven, only Frederick Kuh (London), Alexander Kendrick (Paris) and Virginia Prewett (Latin America) had survived. In Washington, byliners like careful, competent Carroll Kilpatrick, who covered Congress, and Labor Specialist James Free were...