Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belcher Islanders the trial was a sort of game. The defendants greeted the judicial party when the schooner anchored, shook hands all around and helped set up the tent. And because the Eskimos love the comfort of the white men's jails, the verdicts were satisfactory. The two Messiahs, Sala and Ouyerack, were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to two years apiece. One disciple was sentenced to a year's hard labor, three others were released. With the prisoners when the schooner sailed back to Moose Factory was Mina. The jury had decided that she was insane...
When the time for parting finally arrived, the President formally said good-by to the British Staff. Last, the Prime Minister waddled briskly up, casually saluting in a sweeping sidearm gesture. They shook hands a long time, Roosevelt talking rapidly, gaily, Churchill grunting genially, his eyes glinting. This might be the first of many meetings, or the last time each would see the other. But Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had taken each other's measure-and they parted intimates...
...weeks' stay she 1) addressed the nation over BBC; 2) spoke in the House of Commons in person; 3) ate meals with Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Ernest Bevin, Harry Hopkins, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brendan Bracken (new Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance in a London suburb...
There was a pause. Lord Halifax said: "Won't you shake hands?" They shook hands...
...knew we were friends by the way they shook my hand...