Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis think themselves pretty clever in the field of psychological warfare. Secrecy surrounding the fate of their submarines is a counterblow the American people can give them which may serve to shake some of their superconfidence. ... All the people can make the same contribution. Even if you have seen a submarine captured or destroyed, keep it to yourself...
...began to be realized in London last week that the Churchill Government has mishandled affairs in the Orient. The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India. A Cabinet shake-up was demanded...
...podium banked with orchids, Brazil's suave; nimble-witted Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stepped on to the floor to greet various delegates at the opening session. But when Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú came in, walking gingerly, Oswaldo Aranha hurried forward to shake hands, pat his shoulder, and chat warmly. For Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú was the man who might wreck the Conference. He was the man to watch...
...find an unexploded bomb, always pick it up and shake like hell (maybe the firing pin is stuck). If that doesn't work, heave it in the furnace. (The Fire Department will come and take care of things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a building, throw gasoline on it. (You can't put it out anyway, so you might just as well have a little fun.) . . . Always get excited and holler bloody murder. (It will add to the fun and confusion and scare hell out of the kids.) . . . If you should be the "victim...
...merits the Sun will now really have to scratch. Its character still fuzzy, dutiful rather than inspired in editorials, it has done nothing since its scoop of Pearl Harbor to attract attention. Chicago newsmen particularly shake their heads over the Sun's news sense. Example: it passed up a U.P. story on Wake Island to run its own H. R. Knickerbocker's story a day late...