Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed the Brown Daily Herald pledge to renounce war would man the machine guns, and athletes who shook hands over the net would be hurling grenades at each other over barbed wire. The roll of Harvard dead as it stands in the Memorial Chapel will testify to this...
...prices up and business activity mounting by threatened rather than actual inflation. Finally M. Bonnet agreed to postponement of monetary stabilization while the Conference tackled other matters. Perspiring Mr. Cox swung open the committee room door, broke the good news to Scot MacDonald who broke off his nervous pacing, shook hands all around...
...Siamese are a gentle people. Like the rest of the world they have their political difficulties, but nobody ever gets shot. The first of recent Siamese crises occurred a year ago when a bloodless revolution shook dozens of intelligent, inbred Siamese princes out of soft government jobs but left purblind little King Prajadhipok a constitutional monarch. Next Siamese crisis occurred last April when King Prajadhipok suddenly grew nervous at the increasing "Communism" of his first Cabinet, fired the lot of them. "Premier" Laung Pravit left hastily for France and a group of staid conservatives took his place. Again there were...
...same day last week Premier Edouard Daladier received at 10:30 a. m. President Roosevelt's special "Disarmament Ambassador." ever-optimistic Norman H. Davis, and Britain's Air Minister, florid Lord Londonderry. After chatting through lunch and all afternoon, the statesmen shook hands in friendly disagreement...
...reappearing themes run through his Journal: insomnia and work, habits he never shook off. "Last night I had what I call a goodish night for me. 12.30 a. m. to about 2.55 a. m. Then about 3.15 a. m. to 5.45 a. m. Then a few short snoozes, totalling perhaps 40 minutes at the very most. In all 5½ hours." In 1926 he "contracted" with himself to write 365,000 words during the year-an average of 1,000 words a day-fulfilled the contract by December 20. Whenever his ideas gave out he would go for an "idea...