Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master of bureaucratic politics. When able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, was mentioned for Under Secretary, State Department officials shook their heads, said he would never make the grade. The reason: Armour is ''too friendly with everyone...
First-string correspondents shook their heads last winter and spring every time a peace rumor emerged from Helsinki. Wait, they counseled, until the name Paasikivi appears; that will be time enough to expect results. Paasikivi knows the Russians, knows how to deal with Stalin. When the Finns really want to quit, they will call on Paasikivi to go to Moscow...
Morehouse was nowhere near the top of his hill objective, and suddenly we realized that another daytime fight was in progress. The news shook us a bit and Chuck's voice was irritable as he said: "Move out, goddamit. Get that machine gun before it gets light or they'll be on us again." Half an hour passed .during which dawn crept over the hills. Morehouse again reported that he had made no progress, and again Chuck Horner spoke to him: "Listen, Al, you got 90 rifles and machine guns. You going to let one machine gun hold...
...minutes past 8, a group of dive-bombers swung in from the left and circled back in our direction, and suddenly swooped straight for us in steep whining dives. A crash shook the earth directly in front of us, and smoke and the smell of burning was in the air. The ditch we dug our faces into was only one foot deep...
...long while he remained silent, but finally his lips began to tremble, and his body shook with great sobs...