Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When bluff, outspoken Australian Astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley, 49, stepped off his plane at London Airport last week to take over his duties as Britain's new Astronomer Royal, he promptly let fly with some observations that shook space enthusiasts to their dedicated core. Gruffed Woolley, in response to reporters' questions about the prospects for interplanetary travel: "It's utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing . . . What good would it do us? If we spent the same amount of money on preparing first...
...decay that made Communism possible,and there were fine shots of the Romanovs at play while revolutionaries were being ineffectually routed out of cellars. For the upheavals of the Bolshevik age, Producer Henry Salomon leaned heavily on excerpts from such great Eisenstein films as Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant was pieced together out of newsclips and bits of movies from some 76 different sources. The film was often hauntingly effective with its firing squads, starving children, hanged partisans and iron-faced Red leaders. But its lesson...
...year's end, with U.S. personal debts at $800 for every man, woman and child in the nation, many businessmen shook their heads over credit's spectacular rise. Warned Salt Lake City Banker Walter E. Cosgriff: "Almost everyone is aware that if you increase the amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept...
...Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content...
Lost Leader. In the moment of his triumph, Gaitskell turned to Herbert Morrison and spoke in tones of warm and genuine regret. Morrison had announced he would resign as deputy leader if he lost. Earnestly, Gaitskell begged him to change his mind: the party needed him. Morrison shook his head...