Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least a tie, walking alone after the game, like a guy who gets an E in the final. And I saw the dreadful look in his eyes when he walked into the medical room where the rest of the team was. Everyone on the team, including the back, shook his hand...
...find out how hard he had been hit. They asked him his name, they asked him that day it was, and finally they asked him what he was doing that afternoon. Butch sat up, fingered his injured thumb, pondered the 60,000 fans in the stadium a minute, and shook his head. "I'm sorry, fellas, I'm just not interested," he replied...
...plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into the hammock...
...suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...Oppenheimer pleaded for continued free trade in information and ideas. Wartime's fettered physics, he argued, was not really science at all: "The real things were learned in 1890 and 1905 and 1920 . . . and we took this tree with a lot of ripe fruit on it and shook it hard and out came radar and atomic bombs. [The] whole [wartime] spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known...