Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field. Everyone thought we were Japs because they did not know we were coming, and they dove for foxholes just like we used to do. But when we landed and taxied down the field, they came running towards us like mad, from every direction, laughing and crying. We shook hands with everyone and by that time our planes were completely camouflaged. I saw a lot of officers I knew, and I ran into Tom Gerrity - I was so happy because I thought he was lost. That was the finest...
Throughout the first month of practice Abbot invariably finished in front of Cunningham, although the distance between them was more easily measured in feet than in inches. Last Wednesday Haines shook up his Jayvees, moved Bill Drury up from the thirds into the seven slide, and the results began to show when on Saturday Cunningham had a scant two feet over Abbot for the year's first upset...
Hulking Jesse Jones, 68, 6 ft. 3, 220 lb., grabbed Meyer's coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...
They dashed into the lobby and asked a girl at the desk. She shook her head, looked worried. They ran outside. There the noise was louder, but they could see no searchlights, no shell bursts...
...true that my curtain calls were rare, and besides, "happy as kids" makes a pleasant if inaccurate simile.) They danced around and grinned at each other and slapped each other on the back behind scenes and then disappeared in front of the curtain and came back and shook hands and laughed and disappeared for another bow and then came back and repeated the performance, practically jumping up and down...