Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...
...little town of Scio (pop. 1,400) shook with excitement. As everyone knew, it was because of Lou Reese. Fourteen years ago, Lou Reese and seven other penniless persons on home relief had come to town to make a home in the old abandoned pottery building. Then they went to work. Lou did wonders with that pottery plant, built it up into a business which made $3½ million last year. Last week he decided it was time for a Christmas present...
Herschel Johnson of the U.S., presiding, asked for votes in favor of a Mexican proposal to increase the number of nations participating in the Balkan inquiry from seven to eleven. Eight hands went up, but since Gromyko's did not, Johnson declared the proposal defeated. Gromyko shook his head. Realizing that the Russian did not intend to veto, Johnson asked for negative votes. Only Poland and The Netherlands (neither has a veto right) responded. "Motion carried," said Mr. Johnson...
...industry last week shook like a badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ranch-raised mink brought prices 30% below those of last December, and only 60% of the pelts were sold. Prices of fox, hardest hit of furs, dropped so much at auctions that fox farmers were holding their pelts off the market...
...Mostly he spoke extemporaneously (65 minutes). Occasionally he slipped on horn-rimmed spectacles, read a note. I have never seen an orator who held an audience in the palm of his hand so easily and confidently. Soekarno would speak slowly, then at machine-gun pace. Some times he shook a finger at the audience, again he stood arms akimbo and bit off his words. The fascinated audience laughed with him, grew serious with him, sympathized with him when he said he had just come from a sickbed and had to wear a light raincoat (which he took off after half...