Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive Burma where tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...
...suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Insulted with impunity, he still kept his chin up, and when Bishop Roundy "shook hands & said, You are [now] as Rough as an old Grisley, I replied . . . Every Dog will have his day & a Bitch two afternoons . . . Now is your day. By & By it will be my day." But in 1876, 19 years after the massacre, Lee was tried before an all-Mormon jury...
...Balance. In Pittsburgh, after George Shook, 32, pleaded guilty to robbing Grocer Norman F. Krell of $55 at gunpoint, Krell persuaded Judge Walter P. Smart to put Shook on probation because, "He's still one of my best customers...
When President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganin smilingly shook hands at the summit parley last July, the Soviets got a propaganda windfall. Pictures of the occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...
...Hatful of Rain (by Michael V. Gazzo) concerns a drug addict. Young Johnny Pope picked up the habit while a hospitalized war veteran, shook it off, and now-with his wife expecting a child -is on the needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges...