Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets she had not seen for years, looking for vanished landmarks; or the Duke's as he entered the White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied to as no other man has been in the 20th Century; now he was a lonely exile, Governor...
...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...
...high, but nearer & nearer, came the drone of planes. Antiaircraft fire began to slam. Tearing down through the night sky, a far-off whistle rising hysterically into a splitting scream, came the first bombs. Soon the whole sky was screaming with bombs, while the city-target below bumped and shook in the bursts, and incendiary bombs spluttered...
...Matupi shook a whole native village into the bay. In 1937 several volcanic cones, including three called The Mother and Daughters, showered ashes and red hot stones on Rabaul, killed 424 people. Last June Matupi began breathing unhealthy fumes on Rabaul., has been doing so ever since. Despairing of Rabaul, Australia ordered New Guinea's capital moved to the town of Lae on New Guinea proper...
...Father standing there. . . . 'Hello, Pop,' he said casually, 'Didn't know you were home. When do we eat? . . .' 'What's the matter with you?' Herb [asked his brother]. . . . 'He's running a little fever,' said Father. . . . Herb shook his head. 'That's funny. He was having as good a time as anybody up there-and the first thing I knew he was gone.' I looked at Herb with admiration. ... He was so calm, so unperturbed. . . . The dinner bell rang. . . . 'Don't lag, Herb...