Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President," said he, "and of course I had to have the speech that goes with it. It was full of clichés and would have been a terrible thing to read, but then I discovered that I didn't have to read it. All we did was shake hands. I presented my letter and the speech and then I found I didn't even have to listen to the President's reply. He gave me a copy of it and that was all there...
...curtailed projects. The meeting nearly broke up in the stamping, hurrahs and whistles which greeted Rankin's joyous reading of the news flash that Henry Wallace had been fired from the Cabinet (see cut). When the Roosevelt's mirrored walls had ceased to shake, the session resolved to reappropriate the whole caboodle when Congress meets again...
Last week, after a month as owners of the weekly Rangely News, the sisters incorporated and planned to stay awhile. Oilfield roughnecks were glad. Said a rigman: "They're good scouts . . . and they don't try to shake nobody down...
...squadron's dive bombers in action. His political nerve was equally great. The convention which nominated him gave him the vote with misgiving. He was almost an unknown and he was up against one of Washington's most respected legislators. McCarthy grinned and set out determined to shake every hand in Wisconsin...
...never shake the censorship...