Word: shaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...list of callers-during the week dozens of old friends from Congress dropped in at the office to shake hands and chat. One day he posed for photographs with five polio-stricken children who will tour the country on behalf of the March of Dimes campaign. The kids were chirpy as crickets. He seemed both pleased and honored when five-year-old Linda Sue Brown of San Antonio took to tweaking his right ear during the proceedings...
Next day the shake-out continued as trading reached 3,330,000 shares, the biggest since May 1948. At the bottom of the two-day decline, the Dow-Jones industrial average was off more than 7 points. But in the final hour of the second day, the market suddenly reversed itself and started up. At week's end the average was still 5.06 points below the 1950 high of 201.98. But traders thought that the bull had merely been pricked by the picador, and was a long way from the kill...
When he gets there he will find young painters still discussing the problems that the grand old men of French art first raised at the turn of the century. There will be nothing new to shake his simple, and productive, philosophy...