Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stock-market prices, indexed at 248.5 in January, shook off the effects of profit-taking sprees and moved...
Eccentric, self-made Financial Juggler John Fox, 49, snapped up the paper four years ago, when it seemed that its fortunes could go no lower. An enthusiastic cub as publisher and columnist ("Washington Waters"), Fox shook up the paper into a livelier daily. But by last week. Post circulation had dropped from 306,000 to 267,000 and advertising had tumbled with it. Of the "bargain price" of a reported $3,300,000 that Fox paid for the paper, he still owes about...
...Crowell-Collier magazines shook last week with the biggest convulsion since Paul C. (for Clifford) Smith took over the publishing company three years ago. The 80-year-old American Magazine, whose own rise paralleled the go-getting success stories it pioneered, came to an unhappy ending. Smith announced that with its August issue the magazine would fold up, leaving the company with Collier's and Woman's Home Companion. Into Companion went a new editorial regime to snap the magazine out of the doldrums...
Whatever lassitude he may have shown beforehand Maurice Duplessis quickly shook off. As always, he made the devout gesture of setting Election Day on Wednesday, the devotional day of St. Joseph, his favorite saint. Then he donned a brown suit (his lucky color) and set off crisscrossing the province in one of his gaudy, old-style election campaigns, complete with banners, fireworks, and plentiful displays of the Duplessis-commissioned fleur-de-lis flag. His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent...
Dawson Trotman clambered back into a motorboat one day last week after two hours of waterskiing on Schroon Lake, N.Y. He was dog-tired, but before he settled down he asked one of the two girls in the boat, Allene Beck, if she could swim; when she shook her head, he traded places with her so she would be in a safer spot. Minutes later the speeding boat bounced on a wave, and both of them, the 50-year-old man and the girl, shot into the water. He swam to her and held her head above water until...