Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Strategy. The cynics were unfair. The Atlantic Charter was a nobly conceived document. Its failure was that it had not yet been implemented, a year later, by the specific words, the specific deeds, that would make its words shake the world...
...guests crowded around to shake hands. Seven were relatives of the bride. Four were the children of Harry Hopkins by his two previous marriages, and Son David brought along his wife. There were 23 members of the White House staff. The only other guests: Mrs. Clinchy; Playwright Robert Sherwood, who often lends a hand on White House speeches; Presidential Adviser Samuel I. Rosenman; General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King...
...river was a large ship, and out of it came bursts of fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight into the Jap ship. Soon...
Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
...biggest, most dramatic shake-up in transportation since the Wright Brothers got their flimsy biplane off the sand at Kitty Hawk is just around the corner-that is, if fabulous Henry J. Kaiser has his way. This week Engineer-Shipbuilder Kaiser pulled all the talk about air freighters right down to earth with a concrete proposal to build in 1943 at least 5,000 giant 70-ton flying boats like the Glenn L. Martin Mars...