Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owning up to the fact that it had been a bad boy, the War Assets Administration last week grabbed itself by the scruff of the neck, and shook itself violently. It shook out 32 out of 89 key employes in one of its major sales divisions and canceled 32 contracts to sell goods at a commission of 10% plus sales costs. In the future, said WAA, agents would get only a fixed fee (30 to 35%) and pay their own costs. One reason: an agent had charged WAA several thousands of dollars for storage costs on a $14 sale...
...Somebody just took a drill and punched those holes," said Benny. The cops removed the door and shook half a dozen slugs out on the floor. Benny doubled up with laughter, handed out cigars and went off to Chicago for a vacation. So did his friend Levinson...
...trial of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac and twelve Catholic priests was rolling to a close. Charged by Marshal Tito with "crimes against the people" (TIME, Sept. 30), the 48-year-old head of the world's fifth largest Catholic diocese (1,800,000 members) temporarily lost his equanimity. He shook an angry finger at the court, cried: "Not only does the church in Yugoslavia have no freedom, but in a short while the church will be annihilated." He denied "forced conversion" of 230,000 Serbs to the Roman Catholic Church, during the war. Said he: "My conscience is clear...
...Bill shook his head. He suggested that he be hired and they'd both find out what Paramount wanted. He got the job and applied his usual pattern to it: five parts research, four parts deduction, one part designing. The functional plans he produced made Paramount ecstatic, brought him offers from other studios as well...
...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...