Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mole not 200 yards from the Little White House at Key West, a 3-in. cannon boomed out the Navy's 21-gun welcome to its visiting Commander in Chief. Harry Truman stirred fitfully in his sleep. Not until the 17th report, he told his aides, did he shake himself fully awake. Then he hopped out of bed and acknowledged the last four booms by standing at attention in his pajamas. When the firing ended, he tumbled back into bed and snoozed peacefully until...
This view, says Eliot, is not much help to culture. Hand-picked "elites" (who is going to pick them? he asks) inevitably become specialists-one-track groups who only get together "like committees." Even if they could be chosen and made to shake down together, how would they carry out the important duty of passing on their cultural values to a succeeding generation...
...instant, like heat lightning, an announcement dimly outlined a far horizon. There had been a shake-up in Soviet Russia's high command. The world was left to wonder about the details and the meaning of this dark, distant scene...
...Into the Pattern." For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn...
...docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan...