Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushed the door open and called out to the august figure sitting in the bathtub: "How about United Nations?" There was a gurgle of satisfaction from Prime Minister Churchill, who had been holding out against any highfalutin notions of world government. The P.M. rinsed the soap from his eyes, shook his head like a wet hippopotamus. Said Churchill: "That should...
...gangway. Sir Winston Churchill-who once led all the rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill, shook Sir Winston's hand, rested his finger on his shoulder, then motioned him to precede. Together, the two old antagonists, who have governed Britain for the last 15 years, walked up the aisle to the Speaker's chair...
...Tarrell told him to clear out, but the boy retorted: "You put me out." "I'll escort you out,'' said O'Tarrell, and took the teen-ager by the arm. At that point, the boy pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket, shook himself free, and plunged the blade twice into O'Tarrell's back. As five other stunned school employees and more than a hundred pupils stared in silence, he fled into the street...
...plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years there. "I shook hands with 800 people last Sunday at a reception," he said last week. "And one after another, I met people who had been in trouble, had some problem or other, and whom I had helped. That's the sort of thing I like to remember...
Among fashionable jewelry firms, none is more discreet than Manhattan's Van Cleef & Arpels. The firm's customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power...