Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commerce. He was commenting not on the pressures of his job, but on those of the President of the U.S., who last week dropped by the I.C.C.'s meeting at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel. President Eisenhower, just returned from a 15-day golfing vacation at Augusta, shook his head, cracked: "After two days home, I'm about ready to go back...
...Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move would mean death to the hostages, and to report convict grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs; on the second trip Warden Powell refused his pleas to return...
Late the second night Warden Powell heard over his ever-working prison grapevine that Myles had decided to burn the hostages. He acted quickly, led a 50-guardsmen bazooka, machine-gun and rifle attack. The first bazooka "V-O-O-R-O-O-M" so shook the cons that they got only one naphtha jug poured, never got it lit before machine guns scared them away. Wept one guard: "It was like getting your life back again...
...quiet way, Jim shook the stodgy Observer alive. He dumfounded editorial staffers by showing up mornings at 7, imposed a strict ban on "puff" copy tied to ad accounts-long a news staple of both Charlotte papers-revived the Observer's bureau in Raleigh, the state capital, and added staffers in three Carolina cities. The Observer's gloomy makeup vanished in a wash of white space, new type, and pictures boldly played; its brighter columns carried livelier, shorter stories. Inevitably the Observer, historically dominant, stole further circulation and advertising marches on the News. By last year News Publisher...
...flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...