Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only a major shake-up could save the day, said the Libbey story...
Such men say openly now that Washington working morale is disintegrating, that a shake-up must come soon, that this is one thing that cannot be postponed until after elections. Some believe that vast reorganizations from top to bottom must be undertaken, that many a Washington bigwig must be fired from many a big job before the tide of battle can be turned...
...times the Army has seen him flustered was at a training field where he had arranged to meet his son, Bart Jr., a West Point undergraduate and now a student flyer. General Yount climbed from his command plane, walked down the customary line of post officers to shake hands. At the end, surprised, he asked: "Where's Bart...
...Damndest thing that could happen to a father," he exploded. "That will teach me to look a man in the face when I shake his hand...
...Pearl Harbor. At noon on Sunday, Dec. 7, Moore visited the Embassy for the last time. At Pearl Harbor it was 6:30 a.m.-"the Japanese airplanes had taken off and the submarines were approaching." In the embassy, Nomura, apparently ignorant of these events, could only shake his head and say: "It's in God's hands." Near by, Special Ambassador Kurusu was at work on Tokyo's long final note, which Secretary Hull an hour or two later would describe as false and infamous. While they waited to see the Secretary of State, Nomura glanced nervously...