Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from cigar-peddling profits, to buy the Columbia Broadcasting System. The date: 1928. Since then, "Wild Bill" has personally directed his lusty, incredibly wealthy network, kept it staffed with an unusual collection of young men. When he returned to his desk after 24 months overseas, Bill Paley decided to shake up his first team. Last week, after four months of line-up juggling, he had a gang as open-eyed as himself...
...attitude of many a veteran, parked on his cushion, was: "I'll wait until things shake down." By the time things "shake down" he may find he has been shaken out. But these were matters for personal reflection and decision. The nation had tried to do its best...
...impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
...winds from the mountains; somewhere between Kazvin and the Soviet border the Red Army was backing and wheeling in full combat regalia. No one knew just where it was, how big it was, or what it was doing. But that it was there at all was enough to shake the world's "foundations of peace...
When Göring returned to his seat in the dock, the other defendants crowded around him to shake his hand, slap his back. Shouted one: "Hermann, halt die Ohren steif!" ("Keep your ears stiff": keep a stiff upper lip). Growled a member of the Russian prosecution staff: "The pig will long be remembered for this speech...