Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of 17 defenseless U.S. airmen calls for something more than knowledge of how they died and the sympathy of the free world. Let's shake our State Department out of its naive apathy; let's recall our Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and let's kick Soviet Ambassador "Smiling Mike" Menshikov and the rest of the bastards out of this country...
...East German colony have lately improved. Last week a West German economic study showed that 9 out of every 100 East German families now have cars, as compared with 14 per 100 in prosperous West Germany. Nonetheless, most Western observers believe that the risk of an uprising that could shake the whole Soviet bloc remains too great for Khrushchev to seriously consider relaxing the Russian hold on East Germany...
...Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes the latter approach...
...acceptance of a 3-to-1 ICBM gap runs the risk that the actual gap will prove to be very much larger: Soviet technological progress has been underestimated before, can be underestimated again. And the existence of even a 3-to-1 gap could, without a shot being fired, shake the morale and twist the policies not only of neutralist nations but even of U.S. allies...
...week. Cold morality embraced Havana cops, part of them holdovers from Batista, the rest recruited from rebel ranks. The government warned that they would go to jail if they used their badges to cadge so much as a soft drink from a grocery clerk, let alone shake down a chippy...