Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment last week, the long, unhappy split in the U.S.-British relations seemed about to end. At Geneva, Britain's Anthony Eden shook off the lethargy induced by Communist voices, and declared he saw no further use in continuing discussion on Indo-China. Next day Sir Winston Churchill announced that he was going to Washington to visit President Eisenhower. Churchill had told Eisenhower he would not accept his invitation so long as there was British hope of a settlement at Geneva that acceptance might "prejudice"; the meeting was intended to mark a major turning point in British policy...
...McCarthy cheek with the stem of his glasses and commandeered the microphone for what sounded like just another diversion. As McCarthy got rolling, Welch sat bolt upright and stared unbelievingly at the man just six feet away across the table. The packed room hushed; Roy Cohn grimaced toward McCarthy, shook his head, and his lips seemed to form the words "No! No!" Without any warning or relevancy, McCarthy interjected the name of Fred Fisher, 32, an associate in Welch's Boston law firm, Hale & Dorr. Fisher, said McCarthy, "has been for a number of years" a member...
...Hanley snapped awake, suddenly aware of a strange hissing noise coming from the giant hydraulic catapult mechanism on the deck just over his head. He was hardly out of bed before he felt the soft concussion of a flash-fire explosion, then the rending blast of a second that shook Big Ben from stem to stern...
...extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were speeding towards Manila, escorted by army jeeps...
Fire trucks with foam crews screamed to the crippled plane. Said big Joe Donnelly, who had been construction superintendent on the 707 for two years: "Well, that's that." Then he shook himself and added definitely: "She's still a good airplane...