Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Normandy, General Bradley tightened the pressure-on two relatively small areas, probing for a weak spot. On a 15-mile sector-from behind Geilenkirchen to the Aachen-Dürenhills-the German sky throbbed to the thunder of more than 4,000 aircraft, the German earth shook under the bolts of 10,000 tons of bombs, the blows of 20 tons of shells a minute. How any German could stand up to battle after the opening blow was beyond the belief of those who watched...
Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder (see cut), a recollection of the 19th-Century U.S. master whom Hartley knew and revered. Of a Ryder painting he once said: ". . . the power that was in it shook the rafters of my being...
...Associated Press's veteran Jack Bell shook Tom Dewey's hand, and wished him better luck in 1948. "I have no illusions about that," the Governor replied. He paused a moment, as if there were more to say, could he find the right words. Then he added: "I haven't said anything that I am sorry for or that I ever will have to take back...
...Trumans were plain people of Scotch, Irish and Dutch stock. (Harry said: "We're a little of everything. If you shook the family tree anything might fall...
Sylvester D. Bavo said it for the other Filipinos: "We knew that Japan could not beat America, but I do not believe my eyes when I see those so many ships. I feel like crying but I just stood and shook my head. All along the hills everybody just sang. We cannot help ourselves...