Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yards to the west came the clatter of heavy vehicles and the flicker of headlights. A column of trucks lurched past the loungers. "Don't worry," an officer called out. "You won't get hurt. We're after the army." A moment later the street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month. This one was in retaliation for two Israeli farm hands whom Jordanian guerrilla raiders killed in an orange grove across from Kalkilya, lopping...
Pasha) sailed into action to help the beleaguered frontier guards. The Israeli ambushers killed 13 Jordanians in one truck. But they could not break off action until they brought up artillery, and heavy guns were firing over the border along a ten-mile front. Windows shook in Tel Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...
...fourth quarter was all State. End Jim Hinesly got a crack at Herrnstein and shook him loose from the ball. Hinesly recovered it, and six plays later Halfback Dennis ("The Menace") Mendyk drove over for a touchdown. It hardly mattered that Matsko missed his kick for the extra point. The score stayed 9-0, and Michigan State, safely past its most dangerous rival, was sighted-in squarely on the Big Ten Championship...
...took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello." All day long he preached the doctrine of Eisenhower Republicanism-and it was 3 a.m. before he finally...
...campaign issues. He pays his own way into the county fairs, wearing a five-year-old suit and a haircut that looks almost as old. At the Hardin County Fair last week he declined to sit on the officials' platform, turned down a chance to award a trophy, shook his head modestly when asked if he would like to make a few re marks at the livestock show. What he did was wander around, clasping hands, tousling little boys' hair, and telling everyone how glad he was to be at "your wonderful, just wonderful, great, beautiful and fine...