Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally agreed upon was an arrangement by which Cuba would get a single clear channel, Mexico five, Canada six, the U. S. 43. Also agreed upon was a frequency shake-up by which more than 1,000 stations would alter their wave lengths. This week these changes go into effect. It is the greatest broadcasting transformation in the history of radio...
...mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped at least for a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
...George Sanders), a shivering horror of the moon, a tormenting fear complex. But it is never brash. As he hesitatingly proposes to Miss Bergman in the warm evening under the oaks of his estate, or questioningly accepts her affection after their marriage, he makes the agonized audience want to shake him to his senses, force him to accept his happiness. Unable to do so, it must watch his psychosis swell until he drives off his wife, plans a revenge which frames a murder charge on Sanders...
...Continued the current shake-up of U. S. diplomats, replacing political appointees in Latin-American posts with career men. To replace genial old (74) Indiana Novelist Meredith Nicholson as Minister to Nicaragua went Pierre de Lagarde Boal, 45, now Embassy counselor in Mexico City. To replace genial, middle-aged (55) Findley Burtch Howard as Minister to Paraguay went Wesley Frost, recently Embassy counselor in Santiago, Chile...
...signal for inhibitions to slip gently down over the shoulders. Strong-through-joy Nazi Germany, however, frowns on undisciplined enjoyment, and for the last 18 months gaiety has been regulated almost out of existence. But last week came a sign that even the Germans must relax to shake off the jitters of war as reports arrived of ten days of hoopla in the Bavarian Alps...