Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paint. Higher-watt light bulbs blossomed in the dim hallways. Officials of the traditionally standoffish Department stepped up to NBC microphones with a weekly series of folksy Saturday night dialogues ("The State Department Speaks"). Last week the streamlining reached a climax. The Department announced a stem-to-stern shake-up of its whole shop-a reorganization to grapple more realistically with the new U.S. role in a new kind of world...
...Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German Drang nach Osten. It would take a mighty swing inside Hungary to shake the Russian view...
...next decade will be decided the fate of the world for many a year to come. America is now beginning to shake off her isolationism and while doing so a great man has arisen. That man is Wendell L. Willkie...
...delegates then present rose to their feet applauding. Giraud stepped forward to shake De Gaulle's hand...
...Hold arms parallel to the ground and shake your wrists vigorously...