Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There'll be more Crimson teams operating in Cambridge this week than you can shake a cliche at the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meet the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman basketball teams both open their home seasons against Northeastern at the Block-house, and the hockey team goes after Brown bear at the Arena...
...Class of '51 is the first to undergo the organizational shake-ups recommended by the Paul report on Class Affairs which the Council approved last year...
...expert let go. The musician, suspicious by nature and unaccustomed to dining hall food, decided that he was being poisoned. He was shipped back to Russia after a Stillman nurse found him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast. This left no one with sufficient zvon-aptitude to shake Lowell's rafters, and today the bells are only set in motion on special occasions...
Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion...
...doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look as though the U.S. was undercutting U.N. Moreover, what would Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles think? Could the Administration expect the Republicans to continue support of the bipartisan foreign policy after this...