Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Miss Brewer, there was a "terrific noise," which shook the lecture room. Broken glass was spread all over, and some was found on the ceiling. One student in the back row also discovered bits of glass in her notebook after class...
...model to clay mockup with all the anxious looks a young father-to-be bestows upon his wife. Now he slowly circled the car, squinting at its lines and lightly touching its smooth surface. When his eye lighted on a horizontal crease in the molding of the trunk, he shook his head. "That's not good," said Curtice. "You'll see that it casts a shadow on the bottom half of the lid. That shadow makes the car look higher and narrower. What we want is a lower automobile that looks wider." At the side...
...wall of Eller's house that put the old farmer's kitchen and two bedrooms in his native Italy, consigned the remaining six rooms plus the chicken house and stock barns to Yugoslavia. Farmer Eller started to protest but was hushed by the police. An Italian neighbor shook his head in dismay. "This is worse than Groizia," he mourned. "All they did there was separate the town from the cemetery...
...Manhattan powwow sponsored by United Nations boosters to celebrate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's 70th birthday, Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's chief delegate to the U.N., dropped in as a surprise guest. When the festivities ended, Vishinsky warmly shook hands with one of his tablemates, a self-confessed Republican. "You are a very nice young man," glowed Communist Vishinsky. "If I were an American, I would be a Republican...
Moscow won an easy team victory (159-89), but for London, the 5,000-meter race was the meet. Only Chris Chataway had some sober second thoughts. Looking ahead to the next Olympics, he shook his head and mumbled: "I'd still back Zatopek to beat us both...