Word: shakerly
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...remembered the long, workless summers when his father, deafened by years near the roaring "shaker" screens, would get him to listen for the whistle that was the call back to the mines. If it blew, there would be work-and singing in the Travis house that night...
Swinging down from the loft, Joe took a shaker of sulfa powder to the barn's northeast stall and tenderly dusted the mangled ankle flesh of a calf. A few weeks before, the calf had been taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle...
...Tahiti (TIME, June 23, 1952) twangs the rather snarled relations of a bored suburban couple. In its breakfast-table and business-day vignettes, it takes on some of the flatness of its subject matter. But its mockingbird passages-as when a trio hymns the joys of Scarsdale or Shaker Heights-are brighter, and it gets very bright and funny when Singer Alice Ghostley, while meaning to sneer at the movie she's seen, rhapsodically pants over...
...Meany was elected secretary-treasurer of the New York building trades council and began to be a minor mover and shaker in city labor affairs. With the Depression, construction work in New York almost came to a halt. Along with other union officials, Meany took a 50% cut in salary, then went nine months with no pay. The city unions were in a desperate condition, and when an upstate bartender seemed likely to become state president of the A.F.L., the New York City building trades decided he knew nothing about their problems, and nominated Meany, who was elected...
Died. Robert J. Minshall, 56, onetime Boeing Aircraft Co. vice president, principal designer of World War II's famed B-17 Flying Fortress and winner in 1940 of the Musick Memorial Trophy for his pioneering work on transoceanic clippers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...