Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...washes out the road. Before the car reached his old high school for a brief preliminary ceremony, it was stuck solidly for 15 minutes, in a temperature of 102°; only Wendell Willkie's 220 lb. kept him from being pulled from the car by handshakers; he shook each hand that was offered and did not lose his smile. But in the school building from which as a boy he had been twice expelled, he seemed to lose his vitality and sat down almost in exhaustion on the stairs. He lit a cigaret and said: "They didn...
...squinted at him, tickled him to make him laugh (a witness was sure he would never forget Mr. Klein's laugh), demanded his signature, Mr. Pigola finally convinced the court that he was Mr. Pigola. Angry Pigolates and Kleinsters bandied insults as the case was dismissed. Mrs. Klein shook her head, sadly muttered: "He looks like him, every bit of him looks like...
...that nerve-racking last round, even dead-eyed Dick Shaughnessy hobbled one, finished in a three-way tie (at 249 x 250) with F. S. Hawkins, Dallas druggist, and Alex Kerr, Los Angeles sportsman. After two shoot-offs, Dick finally shook off his rivals, was crowned national all-gauge champion, skeet's No. 1 title...
...have long depended on TIME'S "hew-to-the-line" reporting to keep facts clear for me in the melee of propagandas in which we live. Your July 15 Mexico election write-up shook my confidence. It seems your representative read a history, consulted some American investment interests, the Almazan campaign headquarters, then wrote...
...were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities, shook the hand of China's Director of Intelligence Samuel Chang, then had his leg amputated...