Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House stood, gave President Barclay a good hand as he walked to the dais. Introduced by Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, he spoke for a minute and a half, shook hands with the Speaker, departed...
Joseph Stalin smiled, Joseph Davies smiled, Viacheslav Molotov smiled.* Then the special messenger from the White House shook hands warmly with his Kremlin hosts. He was off for the U.S., with his dyspepsia and pills and the wax-sealed envelope bearing Joseph Stalin's reply to Franklin Roosevelt. Everyone, agreed that Mission II to Moscow, its nature still a secret, had gone famously...
When Marjorie Lawrence left her paralytic's wheelchair last winter to make a seated comeback in Tannhäuser (TIME, Feb. 1), many an operagoer shook his head as he applauded. It was brave business-but where was it leading? For all her good looks and magnificent voice, the soprano simply could not walk. She seemed limited to undemanding roles that could be sung lying down. But in Montreal last week Marjorie Lawrence sang the whole great, exhausting part that Richard Wagner wrote for Isolde...
Food & Guts. Nazi propaganda has long claimed that Germany's enlarged economic sphere can more than match that of the Allies. But defeat in Africa shook many a German's faith in the Axis economy. A traveler from Germany into Switzerland said that on the day the meat ration was cut again, one German protested: "My God, this and Tunis...
...Pathetic." When Commander Smith first saw them, they had all had the benefit of a three-week ocean trip, and said they felt "much better." But they had common symptoms galore: headaches, sensitivity to sharp noises, periods of amnesia, tendency to get panicky, tense muscles, tremors, hands that shook when they tried to do anything. They were "frequently close to tears or very short-tempered." Men who formerly took pride in their ability to hold their liquor "found that a couple of short beers would make them cry like babies or want to fight everyone in sight...