Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt, who has given up the handshaking habits of his predecessors, made an exception, shook the hands of 140 grand masters of Masonry...
...Soul" in a Swahili dialect. The three departing missionaries made speeches. Brother Moseman caused a little ripple of pious laughter when he said: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord called upon you all not to leave this ship and to come with us!" The Mennonites shook hands and kissed all around. Singing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," they marched off the Deutschland. Two hours later the three missionaries were sailing off to preach God's word to black men and the 400 pious folk in their "plain dress" were in their ten railroad...
...nursed his growing lead perfectly, leaving Cochran one impossible shot after another. After one hour and 45 minutes of play and one of the most onesided finals on record, Layton knocked off an easy billiard that gave him the title, 50-10-23. Walking around the table he shook hands with the man who thought it would be a "breeze." Said the new world's champion: "I never wanted to win so badly and I don't think I ever played any better. ... He caught quite a blind man, didn...
...boys had gone out to lunch. But when he returned at 4:30 to make beds, he found the students still lying as he had left them in the morning. He looked close, saw that one of them was not breathing, that his face was strangely pink. He shouted, shook the boy's shoulder. There was no answer. Heart thumping, he leaped from room to room. Each boy lay pink and still...
Because Shore's presence would increase the gate, he was allowed to play last week. Before the game, which Toronto won handily, 7 goals to 3, he and Bailey shook hands, chatted for a moment at the centre of the rink. Shore, once the most unpopular player in the league, was thereafter cheered for every play he made...