Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Useless Pig Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough...
...Maryville College stared at the girl across the net and served viciously. The ball came back. For the next 30 minutes his best drives kept coming back at him with maddening regularity. He began to net his returns and overdrive the baseline. At last he ran up to shake the hand of his conquerer: the University of Chattanooga's Marilyn Voges. The score...
...Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co., Inc., an industrial combine with assets of $57 million, added another heirloom. He took over as board chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Crane Co., the nation's largest manufacturer of valves, fittings and pipes, in a shake-up of 104-year-old Crane's management...
Virginia gentleman and astute politician that he is, Lindsay Almond in victory pooh-poohed any notion of a split with the venerable Byrd organization-and went out of his way to shake hands with the diehards. But Virginians could hardly help noticing that as the Old Dominion turned away from Byrd's disastrous massive resistance policies, Lindsay Almond was very much in command...
...Allen summed up his conclusions: "Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles...