Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand is not only rough & tumble but it defies the basic principle of sport: obey the rules. A combination of dirty boxing, dirty wrestling and dirty jujitsu, it teaches a fighter how to whip the other fellow, rules or no. If a cadet plays too fair, is ready to shake hands or even admits that his opponent is better, he may "bilge" (flunk) the course...
...Whatever is done by compulsion or persuasion will shake U.S. living habits. More women in the war effort means fewer women in the home-as wives, daughters or servants; it means eating more meals out, fewer socks darned, fewer guests entertained at home, and many another change in the American way of living...
Master of Arts. Citation: "A penetrating analyst of the volcanic forces which shake our world, his voice is heard throughout the land,-democracy's unflinching advocate...
...Commandos, their job, or their first leader. Aging Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, famed for his raid on a German submarine base at Zeebrugge in World War I, formed and trained the first Commandos in Scotland. His men were to be simply raiders. Their job was to shake Nazi morale, collect information, do what damage they could, and give Britons something to cheer about. Soon the Commandos had a phrase to describe their task: "butcher and bolt...
Some Congressmen spoke darkly of hauling up some offending editors and columnists before Congressional committees, of ramming through libel laws to shake the press's teeth, of getting radio time to take their case to the people. Isolationists, whose pre-Pearl Harbor record has frequently been thrown back at them, cried for an investigation of an alleged "smear" gang said to be behind...