Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director smiled, thanked her. The producer shook her hand and opened the door. In the waiting room a girl with long, dark, hair, who wore a black skirt and sweater chatted with the boy next to her. In the background the radios from the wireless club whined and sputtered. She placed a cigarette in the side of her mouth, struck the match three times until it lit, inhaled deeply, then turned her eyes slowly toward the doorway...
...last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down the gangway to the pilot boat. It was 5:30 p.m. His next ship was due out at dawn...
Hary strode down the aisle quite youthfully, posed for the press, shook hands, and smiled dutifully at the man who screamed "Give 'em hell...
Tons of rain sweeping across the island at speeds of up to 156 m.p.h. breached sea walls, wrecked the Ryukyus Command building, reduced 3rd Marine Division headquarters to rubble and killed a military policeman. While Okinawa's 40,000 Americans shook inside their typhoon-proof but half-flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop...
...Newspaperman John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, long banned in the Soviet Union,presumably on personal order of Joseph Stalin, was restored to the index of approved reading. Reed's enthusiastic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution (on his death in Moscow in 1920 the Bolsheviks gave him a hero's burial in the Kremlin wall) omits all mention of the role played by the then obscure Stalin...