Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen leaves Gair, but he cannot shake off a gnawing question. Why, he asks Crome on a second visit, did he stop writing after the critical success of Cockaigne? Nothing of the sort, confides Crome; he merely stopped publishing...
Meanwhile, a large-scale repair job that will be concluded this spring involves the west end of Memorial Hall, where the large stained-glass window was removed last fall for strengthening. The window, whose lead frames tended to shake when struck by strong winds, has been rebuilt during the winter, and will be replaced in the Hall's west wall when the weather improves...
...offered Lescot safe conduct to the airport and a ticket to Canada. Lescot, essentially a logical man, accepted. Thus ended a classic Haitian coup de langue-a "tongue revolution" in which rumors of discoatent, troubles or violence brewing in the capital bring on a spontaneous general strike and shake the regime down...
Wild Colonials. Next afternoon, during the 23-mile state procession, some of the crowd of 1,200,000 burst through the police barriers and halted the royal car on eight separate occasions. Men & women clutched Philip's arm, tried to shake his hand, patted the royal shoulders and tossed confetti and flags into the car. After a lunch at Sydney University, the duke was flustered by a posse of wolf-whistling teenagers, who oohed: "Isn't he nice? . . . He's beautiful." In the evening, instead of dancing, many of the 2,000 guests at the Lord Mayor...
...competition includes the slalom and across-country races on Friday, followed by the downbill race and jump on Saturday. And although the F.I.S. World Championships in Sweden have plucked some of the best skiers from a few teams, there'll be more top-notched schussers there than you can shake a can of Faski lacquer...