Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simplest divorce Babs had been through yet. It had taken her nearly three years to get rid of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, her No. 2 boy, and six weeks in Reno to shake Prince Alexis Mdivani (of "the marrying Mdivanis"), her first husband. Hollywood gossips said that No. 4 was already waiting in the wings...
Japanese officers saluted smartly, sometimes tried to shake hands. Most U.S. officers ignored them...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...
...high. After the war you might buy a tractor and a car for $1,090." Said Iowa State Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn: "Jeeps will fit in well for runabout errands. But I can't see how the practical farmer is going to go crazy over it. They shake your teeth...
...Chicago. But Larry MacPhail, who excludes the word "impossible" from his bulging vocabulary, had already decided to shake up his slumping club. Last week, neatly finessing waiver difficulties, he sold high-paid ($17,500 a year) Pitcher Hank Borowy (won 10, lost 5) to the National League-leading Chicago Cubs...