Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sabath shook his head: seven minutes was all he could spare. Before anyone realized what was up, "Goober" Cox called Sabath a "liar," swung at him with his right hand, clouted him on the side of the head and sent his glasses spinning...
Rising Land. Mount Usu stayed quiet, but for six months the ground around it shook every day. A square-mile area of terraced grain fields to the east rose slowly until the land could no longer be cultivated. The villagers of Fukaba (pop. 153) came to Postmaster Mimatsu for advice. Since there had been no actual eruption, he assured them that the rising would stop soon...
...Memory. At the inquest, Tom Carswell, the Negro who had shared Hill's cell, shook perceptibly as he was questioned. "They were white and there were two of them," he said. Did he recognize them? "I know just about everybody around here, but I never saw those two before." Wispy-haired Coroner C. C. Thompson, who is also Mclntyre's town butcher, asked: "You probably couldn't identify the men if you saw them again, could you?" "No, suh," said Carswell eagerly...
...morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
...Jones recognized Whirlaway as a potentially great horse?even though he was foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn during a race, no amount of strong-arming by a jockey could keep him from going wide...