Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most encouraging signs in the game was the Crimson's ability to shake its habitual first-period blues. The varsity dominated the play in the opening stanza by displaying inspired team-work in both its forward passing and tireless backchecking...
Expressions like "A continuing sort of oneupmanship" LJan. 9] make the average TIME reader backtrack, ponder, and shake or scratch his head. "Oneupmanship" is not even to be found in a golfer's vocabulary...
...Governor invited the leaders of the demonstrators into his office "to shake my hand if you want to." On hand in his office the well-prepared Clement had two Protestant ministers, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a score of reporters and TV cameramen. The demonstrators were put off balance when Clement commenced the proceedings with "a word of prayer...
...Truman tax scandals, a star performer was chunky, sleek Abraham Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer whose clients included the late Al Capone. To a House subcommittee. Teitelbaum shrilled out a fantastic story of how two men had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The "or else": he'd get into "bad tax trouble" if he didn't pay. Last week in Chicago, a federal court jury found him guilty of evading $135,060 in income taxes...
These are the missile people, high technologists all. Some of them brood with pencil and paper; others contrive tiny instruments of inconceivable delicacy; others work with great rocket motors that shake the earth with their roars. All of them are racing that day when an enemy-made meteor glows like a spark in the sky. Long before that day, the U.S. must have its own deadly "birds" and many other monsters...