Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the University started compulsory Physical training for freshmen in 1919, many faculty members and students-reared under the elective system-shook their heads over the loss of "Harvard's tradition of personal liberty." Thirty-five years later, in the era of General Education A and distribution requirements, few would attack compulsory physical exercise on the same grounds. Many can and should criticize it for the time it needlessly carves from the freshman's already over-crowded day. The job-holding student especially-usually required to maintain a Group IV average and participate in an activity to retain a scholarship...
...easily on aluminum crutches. Billy Jennings, 6, of Trumbull, Conn., the 1955 "Easter Seal Child" of the National Society for Crippled Children & Adults, had come to deliver to the White House the first block of seals. "You're doing all right there, feller," said the President, as he shook Billy's hand. Then he accepted the corsage the boy was to give to Mrs. Eisenhower, and explained why he had come instead: "She'd like to meet you, Billy, but she's in bed with a bad cold...
...Marin] shook his head slowly. 'Nurse,' he said after a moment, 'please bring us some whiskey...
Obscurity & Comeback. After victory, to make sure that the army could not threaten the regime, Stalin shook up the command, and banished Hero Zhukov to Odessa and the Urals. Never again in Stalin's lifetime did Russia's top soldier hold a top command. But with Stalin's death, Zhukov came marching home. An uncertain new regime, needing the support of the Red army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached...
...country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed a bit uncomfortable...