Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day in Austria, Anatoly Barsov was driven to the Urfahrer Bridge spanning the Danube at Linz. A U.S. captain asked him for the last time whether he was sure he wanted to be turned over to the Russians. Barsov shrugged indifferently, shook his head, as he went off to join the two Russian officers who were waiting...
...explosions shook the Cochino. The Tusk's skipper, Commander Robert Worthington of Oakmont, Pa., brought her alongside; as the two subs tumbled and crashed and wallowed, a narrow gangway was pushed across from deck to deck. One by one, eyeing the seas v.ith desperate concentration, the Cochino's men came leaping across...
...midnight Boykin's guests had drunk, eaten and spoken their fill. Boykin happily picked up the tab-about $16,000 -and shook his big head in wonderment. "Think of it, by God," he thundered. "Over a billion people represented right here in one hall. I doubt if there's ever been anything like...
Outside the city, the quake shook down farmhouses and whole hamlets. Landslides wiped out roads, dammed streams and rivers. By nightfall tragic processions of Indians carrying rude coffins had formed on the roads outside Ambato. All along the way, other Indians with lighted candles kept vigil beside the dead for whom coffins had still to be made...
Next day, when Churchill went for a swim in blue bathing trunks, Italian photographers were hiding in nearby bushes. Police flushed them all out except one; he got some pictures, then tumbled down a slope into police range and got chased too. Churchill waded ashore, shook himself vigorously, stomped into the hotel growling: "I am not a movie star...