Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took an act of God to give him his first big killing. He was vacationing at Atlantic City in the spring of 1906 when a hunch told him to sell Union Pacific short in the face of a roaring bull market. Two days later the San Francisco earthquake shook $250,000 into...
...working in a Scottish coal mine, still has a miner's shoulders and a Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...
Delegates shook the bony hand of ancient, long-bearded T. J. Smith of Tennessee, who was attending his 50th labor convention as a representative of the United Mine Workers of America.* They waited for the dramatic moment when John Lewis would make good his promise to resign as C. I. O. president. They speculated on Philip Murray, C. I. O. vice president, as a successor. But they were not prepared for the fireworks that began when the convention opened...
While slighter temblors shook the nation, Rumania's chief concern last week was with the effects of last fortnight's violent earthquake shocks. In Bucharest 98 bodies had been taken from the stony ruins of the elegant Carlton apartments. The national toll rose to 357 dead, thousands injured...
Earthquakes of Intensity Seven are bad.* The one that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...