Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coffee, the Freshman pushed into his coat again, and started out. The Navy man was ahead of him, and was putting on his gloves outside when the old-type Yardling walked through the second swing door. The officer, waiting, turned around. He hesitated. "I want to shake your hand," he said. "I've been in this place for three months and you're the first Harvard man that's spoken...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile was hastily formed in the summer of 1941 by men who symbolized most of the political errors of the past two decades. Last week the sexagenarian exiles gave themselves an overdue shake-up and ousted bent, deaf, secretive, forgetful Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich...
...paperwork to run the Army, Navy and Air Force; there's no getting away from that point. At the same time, it seems rather doubtful that there is enough administration and brittle-bone work to warrant the creation of all these female forces and shake-ups in the home lives of countless families. After all, what is home without a woman...
...days of pre-convention dickering had failed to shake the candidacy of Illinois's Werner W. Schroeder, backed by Old Guardists and anti-Willkieites. But on the first ballot, Schroeder was tied with Washington's hustling, young (35) Fred E. Baker. On the second ballot, Fred Baker jumped into the lead. Then retiring Chairman Joseph W. Martin and the Committee's pugnacious publicist, Clarence Budington Kelland, got to work. In a two-hours' recess, they preached the inevitability of compromise. When the meeting was resumed, Candidates Schroeder and Baker walked down the aisle...
...have relatives at the front in this war. I want them backed up and "generaled" a whole lot better than the present regime has done. So for Senator I wanted a young man who would jab the coals, shake the grate, open the draught and get the fires of action to roaring in this war. Mr. Norris, over 80 and always talking about retiring, didn't seem to be that man. We are proud of his record, but this is a new fight...