Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he turned around and rested his other elbow on the mantel. He shook his drink a little, knocked an ash off from his cigarette into the fire place. He looked down at the fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath...
...floppy hat piled out of a dusty sedan at the White House door last week, shook hands with the doorman, stopped to gab a while with the President's personal secretary and ambled in to see the boss. Harry Truman exclaimed, "Well, look who's back," and jumped up to pump the fat man's hand...
Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...
...January. Yet many Britons were far from reconciled to the dull programming and the monopoly of the state-owned radio network (TIME, July 15). Last week, they had aid and comfort from an unexpected quarter. A wartime (1938-42) director-general of BBC, one-armed Sir Frederick Ogilvie, shook his fist at his old employer in a London Picture Post article. Excerpts...
...were brought up falsely. We were made into Nazis without recognizing it. We lost a war, but what do we have to do now?" asked one of the students earnestly. The others shook their heads. They had no answer. "Maybe," said the girl, "in a sense we are Nazis...