Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already look sufficiently foolish, up popped the Milwaukee Journal with evidence that they had clutched a Communist to their heaving bosoms. The very day of the Wallace speech, the President had posed outside the White House with assorted Democratic congressional candidates, among them Edmund V. Bobrowicz of Wisconsin. He shook hands with them and gave them his party-leader blessing. To harassed Harry, it must have seemed a safe and harmless gesture...
...American Legion convention shook Boston to the marrow of its Brahmin bones. The car-tipping and bonfires, the water-bombs zooming from windows had moved the Harvard Crimson to shudder, "worse than a drunken football crowd." Local rowdies helped tear up the town in the boozy wake of World War I Legionnaires...
Like Evan Evans, Hill believes in object lessons. Once, the story goes, he commanded a new agency man to follow him from his office, drove wordlessly up Fifth Avenue to Tiffany's, demanded that a clerk show him a $150,000 necklace. Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings...
...week's end, the Dominican Republic still shook. On the hills, refugees huddled under trees and in caves. Up to 73 had been killed; 20,000 were homeless. Next to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo himself, Dominicans had not known such disaster since 1930, when a hurricane swept the republic. Then, says an official biography, Trujillo appeased the angry weather gods. But now he was apparently too busy with politics (see below...
Some of the experts whose job it is to hawk this film to U.S. moviegoers shook their heads mournfully after casing the well-set-up, well-exposed Granger torso. If Cleopatra, they decided, had only given Apollodorus the suggestion of a royal high sign for a command performance-no matter how far off-screen-it would have given the picture Sex. However that may be, and however well it makes out as spectacle, Caesar and Cleopatra is vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played...