Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like that of an audience about to witness a death-defying leap. The acrobat says what he is going to do. The announcer says when he is going to do it. But when he actually does it, the audience gasps just the same. Similarly, the Pentagon gasped rather than shook at the news. As usual, the chief Washington concern was whether the British cut might snowball through other NATO nations. But in general there was an underlying approval that Britain had at last adjusted its military cost to its economic cloth...
...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...
...serious political crisis that shook the government has been overcome. Common sense, tolerance, zeal of liberty, respect for the opposition, decision and firmness permitted the government to restore a fully democratic regime...
...between pictures. Disclosing that he was Lanza's second singing teacher, Weede, whose Metropolitan Opera debut finally came at 33, shook his head sadly, allowed that neither he nor anyone else had taught Lanza much. "Lanza had what I believe to be the greatest vocal gift of his decade-but that gem may never...
...Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over much of the executive authority. With his major duties whittled away, Swensrud gracefully bowed out, "to have more time available for other interests," announced that he was leaving Gulf "in the strongest position...