Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them got bawled out on occasion; all of them learned to fear the crooked forefinger Henry Stimson shook at them when he was mad. All down the military line, the old Secretary demanded performance and got it. Before he was through, it was the greatest Army on earth, and as he always knew it would...
...confirm the Republican 7 2-year-oldster, when Franklin Roosevelt called him in to recreate the Army-at that time (June 1940) under 300,000 men. There were officers who looked up at his old-fashioned portrait in the Munitions Building (painted when he was Secretary under Taft), and shook their heads at the ancient's return. Stimson ignored the Senators, soon brought his officers up short...
...Great Letdown." From the forces came a full-throated roar of anger. Protests began to deluge M.P.s and party organizers. Wrote a sergeant from Germany: "This demob news shook the boys more than anything." Embittered Tommies, watching boatloads of G.I.s heading home each week, took to advertising in their home papers for jobs. The Government was likened to Ethelred the Unready (see cut). Stocky, quick-firing Garry Allighan, Labor M.P. for the blitzed Gravesend dock area, staggered out from under 2,000 demobilization letters a day to cry: "You must solve this-or have revolution. It's serious...
...company of soldiers, sailors and airmen click to "present arms," heard a military band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...
...came the first day when 16-year-old Herb Flam (TIME, Aug. 13) began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...