Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
...legendary Mississippi River roustabout, Mike Fink, as "half man, half alligator," the Vagabond remembered. That certainly caught his character right,--a leathery-hides roughneck, quick with a knife, ready to let you have it with hands, feet, fingernails, anti teeth if he didn't like the way you shook your dice...
Heads jumped and library shook with excitement as the talented Western Union employee disdained the dignity of the revered sanctum. At his finish, cries, of "encore" filled the room, but the youth controlled his enthusiasm and walked...
Mild was the temblor felt in Mexico's capital compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...
...eight major-league ball parks, the players trooped out of their dugouts. Politicians trotted on to the field and shook hands all around. Someone placed a floral horseshoe on home plate. Red-coated brass-bandsmen, tootling gaily, marched off toward the flagpole leading a procession of flag-bearing U.S. Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step. The flag was raised, the Star-Spangled Banner reached high F, the mayor threw out the first ball. Thus traditionally the baseball season opened last week. Immediately dopesters' expectations were knocked out of the ball park...