Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that war-plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune with the rest of the world...
Millais himself became president of the Royal Academy. "I've had a good time, my boy," he said just before his death, "I have no enemies, there's no man with whom I would not shake hands-except one, and by Jove! I should like to shake him by the hand now." He meant Rossetti...
They didn't kiss; didn't even shake hands. They just looked at each other for a long while, then walked...
...mechanics raised grease-black hands in horror. The more daring tried it on their own cars, predicted that the motors would soon shake themselves to pieces; the transmission and rear end would eventually break down from the unnatural pulsation of the drive shaft; the pumping action of the unused pistons would jam the dead cylinders with incompressible oil. Instead of being a minor repair job, Sun's plan, they thought, would mean factory rebuilding-taking out the unused pistons and connecting rods, putting in new manifolds. The mildest criticism was that, using the Sun system, it is impossible...
Gene had a "deep streak of piety" and organized the trio's regular evening prayers. What bothered him was whether his mother had been able to collect on his life insurance: she needed the money badly. Gene would think it all over and shake his head. "If mother could see me now!" he would say with amazement. . . . Says Dixon: "She wouldn't have liked the look...