Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally when I had spent all my money trying to get back to Norway, I decided to return to France, Crane-Baker related last night. "The only way was through Germany. I shook in my boots all the way through on the train, but I got to Rome safely and crossed the border into France. Two days later Italy declared...
...forward pass was written into the rules in 1906, after President Theodore Roosevelt shook his Big Stick at bone-crushing mass plays...
...medal round, then proceeded to eliminate three of the country's best amateurs: Willie Turnesa, 1938 champion; Johnny Fischer, 1936 champion; Ray Billows, twice runner-up in the last three years. Against Chapman, however, he lost his touch. In the most one-sided final since 1895, Dick Chapman shook Warrington Bannerman McCullough out of his trance, trounced...
...dancing. Dancing is forbidden in Germany as a frivolity out of keeping with war. In Britain they danced to show their nerve-and because they could not sleep. Berliners looked at the wreckage of their homes, remembered that they had been told their city was impregnable, said nothing. Londoners shook their fists at the sky. As sirens wailed and fires burned, as the war of mutual destruction gained fury, stolid Germans and the scarcely more volatile British alike wondered if this was the beginning of the end of their capitals...
Last week, as old Charles Boettcher took his daily stroll to work down 17th Street, Denverites stopped him in the street, warmly shook his hand...