Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ibilaos showed up, dressed in G-strings, scowling fiercely. Silently they shook hands all around, accepted the presents. Up to that point everything went well. Then suddenly, before the officials had a chance to explain the purpose of the confab, the Ibilaos vanished as they had come. It was all over...
...babbling little strip of sidewalk outside Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs' 49th Street ticket office-there was gloom one day last week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...
...sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken, ice cream...
...veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...
Stubborn Mr. Stelle announced he was still Acting Governor; quiet Mr. Nudelman still went on running things; Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dwight Green shook happy hands with Republican Senatorial Candidate C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. Hastily Mayor Kelly struck off a statement praising Roosevelt and Humanity and set out for a Florida vacation with horsy Mr. Nash...