Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last few years, the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American) has been having trouble. To pep up Collier's, the biggest troublemaker, a series of drastic shake-ups was prescribed (TIME, June 22, 1946 et seq.). But there was little improvement. Crowell-Collier's earnings dropped from a high of $6,500,000 in 1946 to a scant $76,497 in 1952, or 5? a share, the lowest of any major U.S. magazine-publishing house. This week Crowell-Collier announced that it had hired a new vice president, who will "take...
...days later, Stanley got the highest battlefield decoration-a Silver Star-that the 2nd Division's commander, Major General James C. Fry, could award, and was recommended for a D.S.C. Then he jeeped down to a hospital to shake hands with Colonel Clark, who told him: "You were the bravest man I ever saw." Private Stanley shyly looked down at his big calloused hands and said: "Heck, I would have done the same thing for a private...
...after the need for them has passed (and they always tend to linger on), or to impose them when there is no clear and present need, is to incur the danger that they will become a way of life, as in the Roman Empire. Any time a nation can shake off the shackles and prove that freedom does not bring $1 bread, it can demonstrate again that in the long run the most productive economy is a free economy...
...Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the first news of Stalin's death, Mao cabled President Shvernik, and Chou En-lai cabled Vishinsky; their condolence messages must have reached Shvernik and Vishinsky just as they were being fired, suggesting that Peking had no advance word of Malenkov's shake-up plans...
...militarists. He is no deity and doesn't want to be. He even likes the idea of Japan as a democracy. But he is also, perhaps more than any man alive, the creature of centuries of rigid tradition. So when a factory worker tried to shake Hirohito's hand during one of his democratic postwar tours, the Emperor said: "Let's do it the Japanese way"-and they exchanged bows...