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Word: shaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zemke: Have you tried to shake it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Zemke: Get way up and try again. If you can't shake it down, you'll have to jump. Be careful. Put your landing gear handle in down position, do a bank on the left wing and snap it over to the right. Let me get a little ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...hardly likely that bombardment alone could shake the Japs loose from Kiska. Like moles, they would have to be ferreted out with sharper weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Kiska Warmed Up | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Algiers has been the focus of renascent France ever since General Charles de Gaulle arrived last May to shake the hand of General Henri Honoré Giraud. Last week the affairs of France were in an uneasy state of suspension, and they were no longer focused at Algiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Missions | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Well, time is of essence this week, and if we can shake these Nigerian natives off the Cranmore Company's balance sheet by Saturday noon, we'll consider ourselves lucky. It seems the more we ask about the reports that are due, the more excited we appear, so the instructors just elucidate a little here and there to keep us interested, and end up with a 15 page written assignment. And that from "a few figures on a rough map." Professor de Haas, we are surprised...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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