Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jarvis Catoe had been a one-man crime wave. He had caused a police shake-up in Washington and a Congressional investigation. That was after he murdered Jessie Elizabeth Strieff, a Government clerk. Jarvis gently told the police about that...
...employ two systems. First, wait till the sun comes out, then pull forth the bayonet and shake it over the head so the Italians can see the gleams. Then put the bayonet on the rifle. Second, gather shoulders-to-shoulders, take a deep breath and together shout: 'Aera! Aera!' " Aera means "wind...
Scene III: The two men face each other on deck. Franklin Roosevelt's cigaret is burning brightly at the end of his long holder. Winston Churchill's long black cigar, crooked between his fingers, has gone out. The two men shake hands gravely, then the President makes a crack...
Over the fate of the great European collections U.S. zoomen can only shake sad heads. In London poisonous snakes have been put to death lest they get loose during an air attack. But conditions are nowhere so bad as during the siege of Paris in 1870. Then the beasts in the splendid Jardin des Plantes were butchered for food. Lion, elephant and hippopotamus meat sold for $5 a pound, was hard to get even at that...
...Army has more young musicians than anyone can shake a baton at. The best white swing band yet formed in an Army camp set out last week from Fort Dix, N.J. to go on a tour of other camps...