Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Womanpower. In Chicago, Mrs. Alberta Brooks accidentally dropped a bed on a car parked beneath her window, explained: "When I shake my bedding, I shake it bed and all. It just slipped out of my hands...
...took it mighty hard when Lou Gehrig's diamond career was ended by rare, fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman. Bradman sadly put away his bats, fought to shake off his affliction, slowly succeeded. Last week, at 37, he again stepped to the wicket, captaining South Australia v. Queensland, batted placements between fieldsmen with oldtime perfection...
...industry did not do it, then it might find the state trying to do it. Because it had been ready to pick up the reconversion ball, industry had shaken off the bulk of the wartime controls far faster than optimists had expected. Now it could shake off the rest by doing the job, or have more controls slapped on because it had failed. There was no reason why it should fail...
...Navy's new method of spotting hurricanes is to keep tabs on "microseisms," the tiny vibrations which continually shake the earth even when the motion cannot be traced to an earthquake. Seismologists have suspected for years that microseisms might be started by vio lent storms, which generally reduce atmospheric pressure, and so take a load off the earth, which then expands slightly under the storm centers...
Naval aviators have been struggling for years to break the battleship admirals' stranglehold on topside jobs. This week, in a command shake-up being rigged for public announcement, they saw their hopes fulfilled...