Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Belgian peasants harkened one morning to the sombre ringing of bells, Londoners were being wakened by the sound of guns. From Hyde Park and the Tower of London 41 thundering discharges shook the metropolis and Londoners hardly turned a hair. They barely recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
...their side. A young lawyer named Robert Dechert got up to deliver a careful speech. The bulgy mayor listened, cut him short, spoke for a few minutes in a voice so low that the electric fan had to be stilled. Then photographers' flash bulbs puffed as the mayor shook hands with Lawyer Dechert and his clients, the officers of Philadelphia's four renowned mutual life insurance companies, who became thus quietly victorious in one of the scariest episodes of their careers...
...Grace Fusco, 48, X-ray assistant, whose back had been turned, noticed the commotion, grabbed Frank Brown's arm to pull him from the grip of the electricity. The 75,000 volts knocked her across the room. She staggered back for another tug. The man thought he shook his head to warn her away. But his muscles were too tense to do that. Mrs. Fusco saw only his popping eyes, grabbed again, was again knocked away...
After that set-back Harry Bridges shook the dust of San Francisco from his feet and hurried up to Portland to play for bigger stakes. Leader Bridges cared little about far-off William Green. His real opponent was right there in San Francisco, chubby, red-faced Dave Beck, boss of Seattle's labor, for some months leader of the Teamsters Union on the whole coast- the Bill Green of the West but an aggressive, two-fisted Bill Green. The Longshoremen and the Teamsters are the two strongest unions west of the Rockies, their leaders the two bitterest enemies...
...President & Mrs. Roosevelt held their annual garden party for crippled veterans (Civil, Spanish and World Wars), shook hands for nearly an hour, applauded spirituals by a Negro chorus...