Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, public indignation forced Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to name a committee to inquire into reports of bad moral conditions and cruelty in institutions and foster homes. Some 50 members of Parliament met with him to decide what to do. Magistrate George Reakes of Wallasey shook his fist: "It is no use fining these beasts. We must imprison them before they learn...
That decided, the meeting broke up, peeped at some of the recent Picassos, shook cold hands warmly, descended the painter's circular staircase to the Paris pavements sparkling under a four-inch fall of snow...
Caumsett Spitfire was dying of pneumonia. He had a 105.5° fever, a racking cough shook his 800-pound frame. Despite huge doses of sulfanilamide and an oxygen tent, he grew steadily weaker. Then Spitfire, a purebred Guernsey bull, achieved a measure of immortality-he became the first animal (outside a laboratory) to be treated with penicillin. WPB, which now has plentiful supplies for all serious cases, let his veterinarian have 2,500,000 units (normal human dose: 1,000,000 units). At week's end, the news from Hardwick, Mass. was better: after a few gigantic shots, Spitfire...
...long would the bull market last? Most brokers shook off these questions with some of their own: How much more inflation will the U.S. have? How long will the war last...
...want to leave their flooded homes. The grey sea had snaked through Walcheren's bomb-breached dikes, coiled around hamlets and towns, drowned their handsome black-&-white Friesian Holland cattle. It had also brought salty death to orchards, pastures, grain fields. But most farmers and burghers shook their heads when Allied amphibious ducks chugged up to take them away...