Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the conference ended, Dwight Eisenhower had given 28 answers that would be analyzed and dissected around the world. As he marched out of the room, he shook his head, whistled and said under his breath: "Whew! Well, another...
Last September a bomb exploded in one of his treatment rooms; it was the last of seven still-unexplained blasts that shook Kansas City in three weeks. No one was seriously injured, but, as Hugh Hamilton said last week, he was so worried about the "pressure" resulting from rumors about the bombing that he three times considered suicide...
Last week Royal Tan went up and over the final jump like a leprechaun, shook off Tudor Line's challenge in the straightaway, and won by a neck. Just a year ago, with another Irish steeplechaser named Early Mist, the Irish owner-trainer-jockey combination won England's 1O7th Grand National. Exulted Owner Griffin last week: "No other owner has ever won two consecutive Grand Nationals with different horses. Next year we'll try to make it three...
...circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...
...supply concrete, the Americans built a concrete plant on the Fawley site. One British executive, according to the British report, "shook at the knees when he first considered the cost of the concrete plant, which was imported from the U.S. He [is] now quite convinced [the concrete] cost considerably less than if it had been bought outside, even after paying off the cost of the plant...