Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Djilas took the case to court, where the woman, a provocateur, was fined. Children in the neighborhood were told not to play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn Djilas, the authorities insisted that he leave his old apartment for another in a house not yet built. Fearing that he was being run into the ground, Djilas wrote a letter to his friend, Morgan Phillips, general secretary of the British Labor Party...
Victor Hugo has survived primarily because everything he did, no matter how ludicrous, was translated by him into inimitable poetry. But he has survived, too, as Paul Valery said, as "the very embodiment of power"-a power that no French poet since his day has been able to shake off. "Never," concludes Maurois, "has a nation been so closely knit with one single body of writing . . . Paris, whole and entire, sounds one great consistent Ode to Victor Hugo's honor...
...Yardling lacrosse squard will attempt to shake a three-game losing streak this afternoon when it plays a strong Tufts freshman team at 3 p.m. on the Business School field. M.I.T. defeated the Jumbos a week ago, 11 to 5, while the Crimson barely managed to eke out a 7-6 win over Tech in its season opener...
...Ordre, the 400 delegates approved Poujade's program. All talk of mutiny was quelled by Poujade's threat to resign. "If you want me as active chairman," he said, "you must support me. The day I have to take the scalpel, my hand will not shake. But remember, the surgeon never operates without the full consent of the family." With a shouted ovation, the family gave its consent...
...Later on Hitler shook a clenched fist at us. He is in his grave now. Is it not time that we become more intelligent and not shake our fists at each other? As a matter of fact, fist fighting requires much less brains than trading...