Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
...Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised his one good arm and shook his forefinger under Hale's nose. Hale suppressed that interview, which was one of the Kaiser's most famed indiscretions. Reporter Hale's son, William Harlan Hale, printed it in 1934. It was of historical interest last week...
...Prince, cut the stop at Havana from 48 hours to one (presumably to let former King Carol of Rumania and Playmate Lupescu disembark), put in at Newport News, Va. for refitting. The spume under America's forefoot widened and whitened as she picked up her feet and shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty back in Newport News by Wednesday of this week. There workmen will pull out her luxury...
Wrote one correspondent, who had the temerity to ride into the struggle on a battleship: "Hardened seamen on the battleship . . . cursed and shook their fists as German bombers, roaring in for the kill after scoring a hit in the magazine of a destroyer, dumped bombs around sailors struggling in the water and swooped down with their machine guns blazing...
...clock on the night of May 13, beneath the potted palms of the Empire Room in Chicago's bustling Palmer House, veteran Bandmaster Jan Garber shuffled the sheets of his music, shook a stick at his first trumpet. A blast, and then, to the Jerome & Schwartz, 1903 ragtime tune Bedelia, Tin Pan Alley banged and tootled back onto the bigtime air. The broadcast was Mutual's first using ASCAP music after the last-minute signing with the songwriters' society in St. Louis (TIME...