Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking leave from my American friends, I want to say: I don't know when our peoples will be able to shake hands peacefully, when inept and criminal speeches about a third world war will stop, when we shall again meet, like brothers. . . . I want to believe that this will be soon, that the American people will tame its rabble-rousers, its Fascists, the men who dream of a crusade against Moscow, and with love I tell America: Thanks for the friendly reception and goodbye...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...warmth of the Japanese reception was too much for four-year-old Mickey Driver. He stiffened with fright when one of the kimonoed women picked him up, recovered when his father, Commander Orvil Driver, told him to "Shake hands with the nice Japanese lady...
...shake the British cotton industry, which has declined 45% in 20 years, out of its lethargy has become a principal preoccupation of the Labor Government. The way Britons are going about modernization in cotton and 14 other industries* is startling to American businessmen, used to thinking that their own initiative is the surest spur to technological progress...
...biggest shake-up will come in Lever's radio advertising. Long a leading purveyor of that curious phenomenon of U.S. culture, the soap opera, the company is going to cut down. Luckman has nothing against soap opera as such. Says he: "You can't reach a mass market with a symphony orchestra." But he thinks that radio talent has become too high-priced for Lever's advertising dollar...