Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie stepped out of his office on Rushville's North Harrison Street one day last week, walked into a knot of well-wishers. One woman gushed: "Oh, Mr. Willkie, I've always wanted to shake hands with you." They shook hands...
...Another vessel of the northern patrol, the British submarine Spcarfisk, long overdue, was given up for lost last week. The submarine Sealion was luckier. Rammed by a German merchantman, who sheared off her periscopes and shook her up with depth charges, the Sealion wallowed for two days while making emergency repairs, got home safely...
...into the sides of Chungking's red-and-grey sandstone mountain. There he sat hunched up from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. At one point two bombs landed directly above the dugout's 70-foot rock roof, three in front of its plugged entrance. The place shook for 15 seconds, and concussion-wind rushed through it, blacking out the oil lamps...
...Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
...communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern New York and New England until the end of the 19th Century...