Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True Stand. The shake-up showed the changed opinions of the new Government of Argentina since it came to power last June. Then the end of the war seemed very far away, dependence on the U.S. a necessity. By September the urgency of Yankee aid could seem much less to nationalistic Argentines; postwar European markets seemed within reaching distance. Thus Allied victories strengthened the anti-Allied, weakened the pro-Allied forces...
...unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...
...Brooklyn girl named Betty Smith last fortnight made more news than a city editor could shake a stick of type...
...Host William Lyon Mackenzie King greeted them. Next day, just before the Anglo-Canadian conference, Winston Churchill good-naturedly fussed over posing for cameramen. On his right hand he put smiling Mackenzie King. Around that centerpiece he clustered the Canadian Cabinet War Committee. He said: "They want me to shake hands with a Minister," then reached out to grasp the hand of Air Minister C. G. Power...
...Labor Party, hoped the new Viceroy. Lord Wavell, "will sweep away the pompous trappings of the New Delhi Court and establish contact with the real life of India. . . . The British Government itself must take a hand. ... It must resume the initiative; reopen negotiations with representatives of the Indians; shake off the weary fatalism in which it has persisted ever since the Cripps talks failed...