Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem that Lampy cannot find much humor by rummaging through the past. If he is ever going to be funny again, he will have to shake off conventions as dull as these reprint articles and substitute the freshness of new plots and entertaining descriptions...
...Kamegulov's request [who he was and what he requested, the Soviet editors tantalizingly fail to explain] I cannot fulfill. No time! Besides, what the devil, what kind of critic would I be! That's all. I firmly shake your hand and wish you good health. Thanks for your greeting.-J. Stalin...
...indignant tornado swept up from Fleet Street. Lord Beaverbrook's papers even accused newly appointed War Minister John Strachey of being a Communist (see FOREIGN NEWS). Sir Percy Sillitoe, the tall, burly former South African police officer who heads M.I.5 (British counterespionage), conferred with Prime Minister Attlee; a shake-up of British security services was due. The British, no longer supercilious over U.S. "spy hysteria," ordered rechecking of personnel records in all government departments. Grumbled the Manchester Guardian: "Luckily, the Americans were not sleeping too . . . The slowness of the British government's detectives is something which the free...
...Richard C. Ford '36, assistant professor of Legal Medicine at the Medical School and head of the Department of Legal Medicine, attacked four points in the state's case. Two hours of needling cross-examination could not shake his testimony...
...green Manhattan office. "Seventeen has grown up," said Mrs. Valentine with a catch in her voice. "It's a big girl now . . ." Like a mother who has watched her daughter growing away from her, "Mrs. V." was reluctantly ready to say goodbye. Silently, the staff filed by to shake her hand; several girls wept...