Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later he went into the office of his old friend, Les Biffle, the Secretary of the Senate. He shook hands with two amazed secretaries and dashed off another memo: "Les: I wish you were here. I tried to see the VP. He was gone. Now you're out. What do I do? H.S.T...
When North Carolina's Senator J. Melville Broughton died early this month, after only four months in office, the pressure squads closed in fast on Governor Kerr Scott to push their favorite candidates. But last week Kerr Scott tore up their lists and shook Tarheel professionals to their political roots. The man he chose for the seat was the University of North Carolina's scrappy little President Frank Porter Graham (TIME, Jan. 3), who has made a career of fighting old Southern prejudices...
...letters: "Spring is here and so is the 5? beer." The early birds drank and took their change in mild disbelief. The nickel wasn't obsolescent after all. The word spread. Sam's bar & grill started to bulge like Madison Square Garden on fight night. People drank, shook hands with strangers and sang...
...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...
Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...