Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
...whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
Next day John Bricker lunched at the executive mansion with California's Governor Earl Warren. Then, at San Jose, he shook hands with at least half of California's delegation to the G.O.P. convention. He was missing no bets...
Last week rumba-dancing Raul & Eva Reyes (pronounced ray-yes) came into their own. For ten years Raul and his wife, one of the most sultry, enticing little figurines who ever shook a ruffle, have been upping box office and blood pressure in night clubs and ballrooms from London to San Francisco. Last week at a huge twelve-hour ball, they walked off with the most coveted prize in U.S. Latin American entertainment: the popularity poll conducted by Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa...
...Peoples of the earth." When he mixed Napoleonic politics with a tumultuous passion for a local lass, the Lake District peasantry beat Hazlitt up. The advocate of revolution fled to Coleridge's house for fresh shoes. Then he stumbled on to Wordsworth's house, where he shook off his pursuers, borrowed enough money to take him home to London, where direct action was a merely literary theory...