Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monkey. After taking thought, the philosopher gave his solution: 'If you became a mouse and had only four legs, you would be 25 times better off.' The centipede said: 'That's a good idea. How do I get to be a mouse?' The monkey shook his head. 'I can't tell you that.' he said. 'I only make policy...
...padded down the hall in search of the blessing of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, whose influence matches his seniority in the Senate G.O.P. club. Bridges set Smith straight. Said he: "Of course you are entitled to run for the job. Anyone can." Then Bridges sadly shook his head and added: "But it's too bad-I'm going after it, too." Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont...
...anything. I yelled, 'I can't see.' They took off my helmet, and I tried to stand up, but I was too wobbly. I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn't see a thing, just that salmon-colored blur. I shook my head, but that didn't help. They put me on a stretcher, and I saw specks of blue in the midst of the salmon blur. In about eight minutes the blue specks became blue sky and clouds. Then I knew that the retinas had not detached...
...mission and the blessings of Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Sainteny defined his objective as "preventing bridges being burned," argued that the Vietnamese people of Hanoi must surely need French culture, and that French technical assistance might create a Tito out of Ho. More skeptical Westerners shook their heads. "Sainteny's a nice fellow," said one, "but he believes in fairies...
Peru's President Manuel Odría, infuriated, shook up his armed forces. Planes and patrol vessels captured four catchers after machine-gunning two of them, and other aircraft forced the fleet's 13,000-ton factory-ship into a Peruvian port after dropping two bombs close aboard. The staggering fine followed...