Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory (AMGOT), grappling with its first job in Sicily, everything seemed to go fine. Most of the island's 4,000,000 people were "cooperating wholeheartedly." Sometimes they become confused, as did the peasants who gave the Fascist salute, then shook hands...
...first time I saw Paris my knees shook like aspens. Ahead of the Georgia Peach, bursting flak made black puffballs in the early morning sunlight. Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts dived and rolled, spitting lead at the formation of heavy bombers droning steadily toward Le Bourget. The Forts, in high-stacked formation at about 20,000 feet, spurted streams of tracers and explosives back into the fighters. The Bastille Day air battle gave the French another chapter of memories on their historic anniversary...
...Frankie, you're killing me!" An usher gently shook her; she came to for a moment, relapsed into reverie. A girl in the second row held a pair of powerful field glasses glued to her eyes. Another minced to the stage, raised herself on tiptoe and tenderly deposited a white flower at the crooner's feet...
...body shook like an R. F. Wave...
Something had to be done, and London hopefully sent constitutional reforms for Jamaica's consideration (TIME, Feb. 22). To demonstrate political unity, Jamaica's Governor Sir Arthur Richards publicly shook hands with Norman Washington Manley, democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion...