Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech struck home in Moscow. Marshall and Dulles could read those reactions in the words of Ilya Ehrenburg, Moscow journalist: "Don't these misters understand that if we stood up before the armies of Hitler we shall not shake before a dozen rattling speeches...
...Sociology that Spencer sent him, he talked the Appletons into starting the magazine so as to run Spencer's book serially. Two years later Spencer wrote him: "I think you ought to be satisfied if ... you have reached a circulation of 12,000. ... I am rather inclined to shake my head when you talk about making it more popular...
...Mackenzie King stepped out of his office in Ottawa's Parliament Building, padded across the corridor with a portfolio under his arm, pushed aside the green. curtains and stepped into the House of Commons. There was a pattering of applause and some members walked to his desk to shake his hand. The 72-year-old Prime Minister had looked wan and tired when he went away. Now he was ruddy, rested and in high spirits. A month of soaking up southern sunshine had done him good...
...million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there is one thing more: "Varipapa is rhythmical . . . that's why he's the greatest...
...Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...