Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shook before the Marshall oratory, southern Florida was stirred up too--in the face of winds as high as 120 miles per hour called the "heaviest hurricane of a decade," which swept westward devastating a wide belt of citrus groves and vegetable farms...
They split into smaller groups to visit mines, mills and workers' homes. That shook them. After a visit to a cellar where a whole family lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing...
General Clay's special train pulled out of Essen and trundled the Congressmen to Frankfort. There they all shook hands, split into teams and hurried off in all directions. This week the rest of the show-me committee was spread all over western Europe-in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Rome-asking questions, taking notes...
...Rube?'" Yes, the prisoner croaked, he was "Ol' Rube," who won 19 straight games for the Giants back in 1912. The record had never been broken, but "Rube" was broke. "The magistrate," said an A.P. dispatch, "took a $5 bill from his billfold, handed it to Marquard, shook hands with him, wished him luck and then dismissed the charge...
...sunny terrace, in the gaudy bar and up & down the slippery stone corridors of the Hotel Quitandinha, delegates gossiped, shook hands, lobbied and told stories. The tanned and grey chief of the U.S. delegation was hardly seen in public. Yet, despite his efforts to push Latin leaders to the forefront, George Marshall dominated the Rio Inter-American Defense Conference...