Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game ( 5-3) with a sizzling home run over the right-field fence, Ike stood up and pounded his fist in his hand, and Mamie hugged and kissed Griffith. As the triumphant Washington players gathered around Vernon, Ike leaned precariously over the edge of his box and shook Vernon's hand. "Wonderful," he said. "Wonderful home...
...whistle was blown when a Detroit salesman and school-board member named Patrick Vincent McNamara (who in 1948 shook Detroit by calling fellow members of the city council "a lot of jerks") announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Senator. McNamara would never have taken that step if he thought his opponent would be Soapy Williams. Within a few hours, the word began to filter through political channels: Williams, who hopes to see his name on the Democratic national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate...
...Diversionary Red attacks in the Red River Delta squeezed some French posts to the north of Hanoi and shook the morale of undertrained Vietnamese troops whom the French sent in to replace the elite battalions flown out to Dienbienphu. The French now claim that the delta danger is under control...
...ceremonies, a glowering, hostile crowd surrounded Laniel and Pleven. Gaullist hooligans lunged at them, shouting: "Resign! Resign!" Leaflets showered down: "They fired Juin today, will they arrest De Gaulle tomorrow?" A man shook his fist in the Defense Minister's face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...Franz Rosenzweig, aged six, was leaving his family's house in Kassel, Germany for his first session at school one day in 1893, his uncle took him by the shoulders and shook him. "My boy," he said, "you are going among people for the first time today; remember as long as you live that...