Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't talk when he asked me what was wrong. I was numb and sick all over. He finally made me put the babies in their beds. Then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me lightly until I could talk again. The rest of that scene wasn't very pleasant and I don't suppose either of us will ever forget it. But the important thing is that before the evening was over, we were planning to take the babies to New York to see what could be done for them...
Just before the polls opened on election day last November, a Republican challenger picked up a ballot box in a Bourbon County, Ky. precinct, shook it, and heard a startling sound. Not a vote had been cast, but paper was rustling inside the box. It was opened. The rustle had been made by 17 fraudulent ballots. Investigators looked farther, found that boxes in ten other precincts had been stuffed too. Altogether, 254 phony ballots had been planted in the boxes. All but one were marked for Harry Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman (who carried the county...
Capot pressed Olympia around the first turn. The first five furlongs were run in a sizzling 59 3/5 seconds. Halfway down the backstretch, Old Rockport began to sneak up on the rail. Ponder, after lagging along absolutely last, began to show signs of life when Jockey Brooks shook the stick at him "just to see what...
...agree to a reconciliation?" the umpire asked. Fèvre bowed icily, shook his opponent's hand, and stalked back to the waiting car. Said the umpire: "Honor has been satisfied." The most loyal of France's few remaining Bonapartists had struck a telling blow for his great emporer...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...