Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Antonescu came in, he and the King shook hands. Then...
...nights earlier, residents of the southeast coast heard and felt a mighty explosion which shook the ground like an earthquake. One guess: the Germans had blown up a large store of flying bombs rather than let them fall into Allied hands...
...Balkan foundations curmpled; its eastern ramparts shook before the battering of Russian might that could not be denied...
...Whether the first shots were fired at Notre Dame, nobody could be sure. But the shooting started there just as the procession reached the cathedral. The time was 4:20. As the first shots rang out, Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle De Gaulle through the door. De-Gaulle shook off their hands and never faltered. While the battle began outside, he walked slowly down the aisle. Before he had gone many paces a machine pistol fired down from above. At least two more joined in, and from below the F.F.I, and police fired back...
Rumania flip-flopped last week out of the war on the German side into the war on the Allied side. Rumors of Rumanian peace feelers and talks with the Russians and British had buzzed around for months. But the Red Army's mighty shove (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) shook the royal palace, jolted young King Mihai and his aging aide-de-camp, General Constantin Sanatescu, into the realization that it was time to stop buzzing and do something. Young Mihai reached first for his Tommy gun, then for a microphone...