Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest they had climbed since 1947. Overnight, an issue of Kreuger & Toll bonds, backed by assets frozen in Hungary, more than doubled in price from ¾ to 1¾. None of them had an apparent value. But speculators were hoping that Stalin's death might shake satellite countries loose from Russia, and that they might pay off the bonds...
...General Assembly picked up last week where it left off last December: searching, with little faith and less hope, for a formula to end the Korean war. Asked to pose for the conventional opening-day pictures, the new chief U.S. delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., refused to shake hands with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. "Certainly not," he snapped. "Don't you understand? There's been a change of administration in Washington...
...could easily absorb another five or six billion dollars' worth of goods from abroad each year . . . When we consider . . . the great [production] edge we have on the rest of the world, it just isn't sensible-and courageous-to shake with fear at the thought that we might run into a little competition . . . One sure result of free trade with a prosperous free world is a greatly expanded market for the goods which American industry wants to sell...
...form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield admits: "I congratulate him, surely, but I study his face. How tired does he look? How much strength is there in his grip? That way I know what I've got to have to beat him the next time...
...Crimson picked up five penalties to Northeastern's one, but floundered only once; the Huskies scored their second goal with Harvard a man short. Sharp defensive work by Jeff Coolidge, Tony Patton, Ed Mrkonich and Ned Almy made the difference. Not once did the Huskies shake loose a man on a clear solo shot...