Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...
Then Editor Gore ran into trouble. A year ago, objecting to Senator Joe McCarthy's attacks on President Eisenhower, he called on his fellow Wisconsinites "to shake off the soiled and suffocating cloak of McCarthyism." Then Editor Gore stepped out of his role as newspaperman. As his idea caught on, he used his job plant to print petitions for McCarthy's recall, and he organized the Joe Must Go Club to handle the flood of incoming mail and petitions. He also made speeches around the state, found himself a rallying point for anti-McCarthyites...
After internal shake-ups and upheavals, "l.e. the Cambridge Review" will place its second edition on the newsstands today...
Nixon's Constellation had barely landed in sweltering Managua before Tacho wheeled him into the presidential palace to see an exhibit of arms; they were captured, said Tacho, from Costa Rican-based thugs sent to assassinate him last April. Vowed Tacho to accompanying newsmen: "I will not shake hands with the man who hired assassins to murder me and my family." Later, in private, Nixon tactfully persuaded Tacho to promise that there would be no further disturbances on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier...
...been continuously manic for a year or more quieted down, were soon content to lie down on their beds, and seemed to spend much of the time sleeping. But this was no drugged, disordered sleep such as follows heavy dosing with barbiturates, scopolamine or insulin. A gentle shake of the shoulder would bring the patient wide awake at once, able to give sense-making answers. After a few days the somnolence wore off, but the patients remained calm. They willingly took pills instead of requiring injections, fed themselves, ate heartily and slept well. Not all patients responded equally well...