Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time Out. Luckman, who has been executive vice president of Lever Bros. since Jan. 1, is now set to go like hell. He has shaken up the top level of management, plans to shake it even more by bringing up young blood from within the company and from outside. Probable result: almost a whole new first team by summer's end, with the emphasis on youthful zip and the old school...
...children screamed along in ecstatic pursuit. The bandit dodged into the next street, cut through side streets, trying to shake them off. But the pack only increased in size and vocal power. It was a familiar game on familiar grounds...
...week of his 62nd birthday, apparently nothing could shake...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...another section of Parliament some Britons felt that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...