Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promoter of last week's Cleveland venture, George Harvey, an ex-racer, was hoping to rekindle some of the excitement of those gone days. But as he looked at the puzzled faces in the small nightly crowds, he shook his head doubtfully and saw little hope that his patrons would pick up some of the germs that had infected him long ago. For bike racing, he says, "is a disease. Once it's got you, nothing stops you." He has grand plans for future races in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, but there...
...second term thus under way, Ike shook hands with all the guests and led them into the state dining room for coffee, sweet rolls and coffee cake. Then, legally reassured of his right to his job, the President buckled down to a hard day's work putting the finishing touches to the second inaugural address that he delivered next day from the steps of the Capitol...
...SOUTH Night of Terror In Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, most good citizens were sleeping soundly one night last week when, at 1:55 a.m., the city shook from an explosion in one of the Southside Negro sections. Four minutes later another blast rocked another part of the city; it was followed almost immediately by two more. By then, as thousands of startled Montgomerians poured into the streets to survey the damage, it was plain what was on foot-a well-planned, militarylike raid on the citadels of the Negro integrationist movement...
...Both receive more than 1,000 letters a week, and both discuss the more complex problems, especially religious, with outside advisers." And both consistently employ the astringent approach. Explains Ann: "When you sit down and cry with people, you don't help them. Some people have to be shook-and Ah shakes...
Clutch, Lean, Absorb. So Gene Fullmer folded his arms in front of him to ward off uppercuts, and waded in. Robby clutched, leaned and absorbed an awful banging around his ears and his midsection. Once or twice he shook loose and threw the swift combinations that had won him back his title for the third time after an unhappy retirement to nightclub hoofing. Fullmer blinked and kept coming...