Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President shook his head. He wanted a hole card on the table. He needed the fleet in Hawaii as a "restraining influence on Japan." "But," protested "Joe" Richardson, "Japan has a military government which knows our fleet is undermanned . . . unprepared. . . ." "Despite what you believe," the President said, "I know that the presence of the fleet in the Hawaiian Islands has had-and is now having-a restraining in fluence...
...Ottawa's cavernous Union Station, where he arrived with Canada's own homecoming Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Clem Attlee shook the hands of nearly 100 welcome-bent dignitaries while bagpipes tootled Cock o' the North. Then he strode down a red carpet into three hectic days...
Once inside, John Lewis put on his best virtuoso performance. His meaty frame shook with laughter, trembled with scorn, vibrated with anger, froze in righteous dignity. And all the while his deft fingers tugged at the strings, rigging the conference into a one-man show...
...spoke, the first distant volley shook the hall. A lank, bald-headed man in white tie and tails, who bore a slight resemblance to U.S. Senator Robert Taft, mounted the podium and stood with bowed head, facing the Moscow State Philharmonic. He seemed to be counting off the rumbles of artillery. At the 20th, he raised his baton and began the world's premiere of his newest symphony. The bald-headed conductor was Russia's great est living musician, Sergei Prokofiev...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...