Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tomaso shook his head and walked on. Suddenly a shadow came abreast of him. It was the steam roller, slow, driverless. Tomaso saw that there were dark stains on the white rollers. They were bloodstains. Fifty yards behind, three-year-old Rose Delauney, playing with her doll on the sidewalk, cried: "Come quick, papa. Come quick. Monsieur bleeds...
Philip was first almost early, then almost late. He popped out of Kensington Palace at 11 o'clock, shook hands with a chimney sweep (for luck), glanced at his watch and popped back in again. At 11:05 he and his best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
...whom shall I ask to speak for me before the National Assembly?" the woman persisted. Several names were suggested. She shook her head: "Oh, leave it. I'm not going to vote for anybody I don't know." Right away, it appeared, Chinese voters were having the kind of trouble Western voters had known since elections got beyond town-meeting stage...
...patient did not want to talk, but the doctor's machine-gun questions shook out his story: he had taken to heavy drinking, had violent dreams of military battles (with sexual symbolism), at length confided that he was impotent. From the dreams and other symptoms, the doctor made a rapid diagnosis (which later proved correct): the patient's real trouble was a deep-seated fear that he was a homosexual...
...scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook the sense of reality...