Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were two versions of the send-off Harry got on the day University regulations forced him to quit. One, expressed in vehement terms by Mrs. Ruth T. Brown, former Grad Center employee, asserted that "no one even shook his hand," and that his fellow workers were plenty unhappy about...
...Pearson. "I wonder," mused Dr. Holmes from his breakfast table, "if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet, with his large features and his conversational basso profundo, seemed to me. His very name had something elephantine about it, and it seemed to me that the house shook from cellar to garret at his footfall...
...College shook likewise during 1806, for the "great Eliphalet," of the old school that "would sooner cut off his hand than lift it up for an Arminian professor," was in command of a lastditch stand against the Unitarians, with the Presidency and the Chair of Divinity, Harvard's two most important single posts, at stake. After what one Fellow termed "as much intrigue ... as was ever practiced in the Vatican," Pearson's forces lost both positions, and Eliphalet resigned to help the newly founded Andover Theological combat Harvard's errors...
...church steps afterward, William Melish shook hands with his embattled parishioners. An angry woman strode up to him from the street and said: "You are a disgrace to the church." "I am glad you told me to my face," said William Melish...
Then the man in the trench coat and horn-rimmed glasses, with a prize-fighter's nose, came through the crowd and shook his hand. "You were terrific out there," he said. "I'm very pleased with you, Billy." Bill Cleary, who set an NCAA scoring record last year with 89 points, wearing now an Olympic jersey instead of a Crimson one, replied simply: "Thank you, Mr. Weiland...