Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunch over, Harry Truman showed another side of his character. Spotting newsmen waiting outside Les Biffle's office, he shook hands all around and asked: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night. I felt as if two planets and the whole constellation had fallen on me. I don't know if you boys pray, but if you do, please pray God to help me carry this load...
...cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...spelled out the black news. Teachers told their pupils, and some cried openly over Lo Tsung-t'ung (President Roosevelt), the man who symbolized America's good will and her good help. A puzzled ricksha man asked: "But who killed him? Who killed him?" A peasant sadly shook his head: "Szu-te t'ai tsao liao!-It was too soon that he died." One Chinese driver turned to an American on an Army jeep, mustered all the English he possessed and said: "I am sorry...
Jimmy Byrnes had stayed in Washington an extra day to attend the quiet ceremony. At Fred Vinson's request there were no pictures. When it was over, Byrnes shook hands with his successor, walked wearily out of the White House to go back to the practice of law in his home town-Spartanburg. S.C.-and in Washington...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...