Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Finance Committee Chairman farewell and sent him back to Washington as a special emissary. For three days they had talked, these two, the Utah Senator's thin querulous voice rising in vain pleadings for an early special session of Congress, for a general tariff revision. Mr. Hoover shook his round head. Many things had been made firmly clear and the parting handshake sealed all conclusions...
...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...
...Sudden excitement: "There was a crunching jar which shook the ship . . . with a sickening lurch...
...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...
...luxurious Malmaison but to chill, cheerless Sante Prison went Clemenceau's Klotz. When merciless reporters sought out "Tiger" Clemenceau himself, he shook his shaggy head impatiently and snarled...