Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee, he watched steam turbines and propeller shafts spring to life at the Allis-Chalmers plant. Once his car stopped only six feet from three girls in coveralls; their hands shook so that they could not go on working...
...Carnegie Hall bar and Joe Romano's Restaurant around the corner, many an oldtimer with a battered fiddle case shook his head sadly over his beer. Summer was over for the Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning...
...Cadet S. Weitzman was so relieved at completing his cross-country flight that he released his controls while still rolling on his landing and shook hands with himself. The plane merrily ground-looped down the ramp...
...Middle-East airdrome an honor guard of U.S. flyers turned out to greet Hoosier Wendell Willkie, who shook hands with them all, asked each one where he was from, found none from Indiana. Exasperated, he turned to Major General Lewis H. Brereton, who explained: "Sorry, Mr. Willkie-all the Indiana boys are in the guardhouse...
...prayers had recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...