Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaunt young Andrew Jackson Ritchie, back home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeastern Georgia for the second time because he had run out of money, went back to college for a third, fourth and fifth time. Finally, at 32, he made it, came home to shake under Uncle Rollin's nose a diploma from Harvard, where he graduated in 1899 with Henry James and a heap of other smart...
Said Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov: "When I think of Germans I can't control myself. I shake, my hands itch. I've got to shoot, or throw a grenade, or use a bayonet...
...only shake-up in the lineup, aside from those caused by injuries, saw George Hibbard taking over again at left tackle, pushing Stan Durwood down to the second team...
...sooner had the stadium season reached this amphibious end than General Manager Arthur Judson announced a shake-up among the Philharmonic's most important and highest-paid wind players. Trumpeter Harry Glantz, U.S. champion in his class, was promptly snapped up by the rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career...
Peace With the Army? WPB'S shake-up looked as if it might end the long-standing fight between Donald Nelson and the Army (TIME, Aug. 3) by the simple process of merger...