Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...
...American Peace Mobilization last week shook its little Red sail and went about on a new tack-in the exact wake of the Communist Party. For 40 days A.P.M. pickets had paraded before the White House, protesting aid to Britain-purely in the interests of peace. When A.P.M. gave up picketing as futile just before Germany attacked Russia, it did not recede from its stand one iota. But last week, after Russia was attacked, A.P.M. came forth with a vast new credo: an embargo on Japan, all-out aid to almost everyone, including Great Britain, China and-er-the Soviet...
...Stung by Randolph's crack. Henry Clay challenged him to a duel. Clay's second bullet made a hole in Randolph's white flannel wrapper, whereupon Randolph gallantly waived his own second shot, offered to shake hands. Clay shook...
...atmosphere tightened into a tense, spiraling scream, and even as I shriveled against the bones of my body the water directly abeam, less than 100 yards away, rose up in two or three crackling columns and subsided. There was another salvo, after which the ship shook and trembled, and I heard a tearing, rending noise. I crossed over to the port side, and the moment I stepped out on deck I saw the German raider. She was broadside on, so close I could count her bridge decks. . . . Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...