Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union as though his life depended on it. He was stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They said nothing about rabbits, did they?" "Fool!" hissed the rabbit. "You don't know those people in the Kremlin. They'll emasculate me first-and then make...
...crowd, as liberally sprinkled with businessmen as with rednecked farmers, was well-behaved and almost blasé. Unlike his late "Poppuh," Hummon snapped no galluses and shook no dank hair at his constituents. Some three-syllable words like "constructive" and "progressive" even slipped into his speech. Some Georgians wondered hopefully if Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill's prophecy of last September might not be true: "What appears to be the greatest triumph of the old pattern in the South is actually its death struggle...
...Time for Luxury." On top of the hill we shook hands with General Li Mi in front of his headquarters-a crude lean-to fashioned out of wooden poles covered with kaoliang stalks. He waved us to a rock ledge in front of the lean-to and said, with a grin, "Come sit with me on my sofa." General Li apologized for the roughness of his quarters. "Every day I move," he said. "We have no time for luxury." Li wore a padded private's uniform and a private's winter helmet with the earflaps drawn...
Market Tipster Frederick N. Goldsmith shook Wall Streeters two months ago by saying that his generally accurate tips came from a code in Bringing Up Father revealed by a spirit. In a Manhattan court hearing last week he took most of it back. The New York attorney general was trying to put Goldsmith out of business as a tipster. However, Goldsmith, veteran of 48 years of financial soothsaying, did admit that he had tried to get some spirit help, but had had no luck...
Even as the nation good-naturedly shook hands with itself after the election battle, the realities of the world came crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...