Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened to throw Okin out of the room. An aged shareholder yelped that he had paid $4,000 for stock now worth only $12.50. He shook his fist right under President Murphy's twitching nose, demanded: "How do I get my money back...
...Wounded. Over San Francisco's Mare Island, barrage balloons turned slowly in a cold wind. The white collars of sailors lined up to greet the President whipped about their necks. From the windows of the Navy hospital, scores of men in pajamas watched while the President shook hands with men in wheel chairs on the lawn. The President spoke to Marine Leo Lopacinski, who killed 36 Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he himself was wounded. He examined a U.S. submarine which had nine little Japanese flags painted on the conning tower-one for each ship it had sunk...
Eleanor Roosevelt made the first gesture. Without mentioning Bennett, she announced at a Democratic rally that she would vote the Democratic ticket. Then she publicly shook hands with Jack Bennett. This week, just in time to hit the headlines as New York registration began, the President made his shot...
...German propagandists were definitely unhappy. Having announced the imminent fall of Stalingrad in early September, they did not know what to say last week. So they said less and less. Into their broadcasts crept a familiar note of uncertainty, evasion, desperation. It was the same note which so shook the morale of the German people last year, warning them that their victories of the summer and fall were not victory over the Red Army and Russia...
...economists and experts held another noisy wake last week around the struggling corpse of the little retailer. Before the Murray Committee on Small Business the self-appointed mourners shook their heads and clucked sympathetically as they predicted the statistically inevitable demise of some 300,000 stores by the end of next year. Death, they said, will not be due to lack of customers, but to lack of goods and labor...