Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed. Konomi's Hot Springs, reared at a cost of half a million dollars and opened last April, brought benefits to Tokyo far beyond those of the mountains and the open sea. There, thanks to Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish...
With their backs to the blast, the men saw the surrounding mountains stand out in sharp contrast, felt the earth shake and a wave of heat. It was "like someone had sneaked up on me and breathed heavily on my skin," said a G.I. They slowly counted three, turned around and looked at the huge fireball seven miles away (see NEWS IN PICTURES). It was bright red, and churning. Big Brother kept up a calm, steady patter, explaining what was happening. The blast wave rustled by. One paratrooper confusedly stood up too soon. The returning wave knocked him flat...
Then, related Florabel: "He says, 'Hello, Florabel.' He took my hand as if to shake it and he held on, he didn't let go. . . He started to kick me in the shins. I thought . . . he might be clowning. You know how it is in Hollywood. You never know...
...pink, his eye is clear. The rasp-but not the power-is missing from his voice. His knee seems better, too. A safety railing was installed at the back of his podium last year, but when he gripped it at all in rehearsals last week, it was mostly to shake it with temperamental rage-that is, when the gravity of the crime did not actually set him jumping up & down with both feet...
...again the next morning, and by this time the group may have grown to 25 or so, with a few vice presidents. But in the plant the officers will step aside; it's the foremen's show. I'll meet every foreman and his assistant, shake hands, inquire after their families. Wednesday night we'll have a family dinner, as we call it, and all the heads of the company will be there. It won't be boisterous; we're all business. I'll give them a little talk about things going...