Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take It Easy. The next day began at a ranch-style hour. By 6 a.m. Eddie and his teammates were headed for breakfast. By 7 they had gathered around their coach for last-minute instructions. Then, just before the boys took off for the exposition grounds, the coach shook each one by the hand. "Take it easy," he said. "Stand back, and take it easy...
...German measles, but St. George officials broadcast warnings for residents to stay off the streets. When apprehension was at its height, well-meaning AECmen stopped motorists on the lonely road between Las Vegas and St. George and suggested that they have their cars washed-just in case. The suggestion shook even horn-hard miners. When sheep died (probably of malnutrition), their trouble was also blamed on radioactivity...
Though his opponents are busy discussing among themselves who will be France's next Premier,* Pierre Mendès-France last week blithely shook up his Cabinet for the fifth time and announced crisply: "Now the real work begins." By this he meant applying himself to his favorite subject, economics, and his declared intention to unravel France's knotted economy...
...masonry on the Paseo de la Castellana near the U.S. consulate, which is to be the prince's new home. In a reception room, a score of privileged grandees and their wives waited with half a dozen of Juan's former high school classmates. The prince shook hands all round. Said General Martinez de Campos, taking the prince by the arm and leading him to the center of the room: "Now, if Your Royal Highness pleases, we will get to work." The prince went upstairs to meet his tutors...
Imaginative Flair. When Kimpton attacked the problem of the Hutchins B.A., some professors shook their heads in dismay. But the chancellor made it clear that he had no intention of throwing out the broad sort of program Hutchins had in mind. Today the university offers three plans to its undergraduate students, depending on how much specialization they want. They can 1) take three years of general education and one of specialized "tutorial study," 2) take two years of general education and two of concentration, or 3) combine their general courses with their major throughout the four years. One fairly certain...