Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months that shook the soviet empire have passed since the last announced Moscow meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Yet to hear the Committee tell it last week as it wound up five solid days of deliberations, all they had really talked about was the current state of the Russian economy...
Later Queen Frederika told Jack Peurifoy the story. The Ambassador shook his head and said: "I can't tell him that I believe that. I cannot believe that a good and just God would do that to my little boy." And the Ambassador burst into tears. But eventually, as the Queen had advised, he did tell the boy that he believed it was Jesus who had given him this "hardest problem...
...Nehru was the Man in the News last week, and in his t ypical indefatigable way, he made a lot of it. He had come to the U.S. primarily to talk with the President on the problems and promises of the world. But along his word-strewn way he shook a multitude of hands, graced a dozen receptions, closeted himself a dozen times with dozens of officials, dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, lunched with Dag Hammarskjold, raised his goblet of orange juice in dozens of toasts, changed the tiny, ubiquitous rose in his ubiquitous achkan dozens of times...
...Young Republicans organized an effective doorbell campaign. Disgruntled state employees flocked to ex-Employee Del Sesto's support. Attractive Lola Del Sesto and their three sons gave him an emotional appeal that Bachelor Denny Roberts did not have. Most important of all, much of the Italian-American vote shook off Democratic habit to boost a man with a name like Del Sesto...
...wholly new quality, the quality of himself. There followed a hesitant shower of equally exciting watercolors. and finally more oils. In 1924 he had his first one-man show of new work, which sold out. He married a painter named Josephine Nivison (who had also studied with Henri), shook the dust of commercial illustrations from his heels and began, at 43, the career he was born...