Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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could not move the earth, at least the U.S. could and did perceptibly shake it in reply to the Axis...
...Messrs. Shubert have brought back a well-dusted edition, replete with modernized lines that crack wise at Clark Gable's ears and Dot Thompson's voice and figures. It is one of those curious mixtures of slap-stick comedy and genuinely beautiful music, which doesn't shake up too well at times but which would find its justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier...
...roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
Dusk had fallen and now the British knew they were near the southern squadron. They knew they were going to have a fight after all these months of wake-riding. They knew that at last they were going to shake the living rivets out of the Eyeties...
...Trustee Wardall had no sinecure. It was his job not only to run the shock-rocked company, and to plan a new capital structure, but also to recover any assets he could. Most of the directors from whom a lawsuit (for negligence) might shake important money, were the former owners of the local wholesale houses, who had become vital cogs in the management wheel. If, in bargaining with these directors for a settlement, he got too tough, they might well have got tough in return by suing to get their companies back or leaving McKesson and taking their local customers...