Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, painful struggle to produce a direct-lift machine was simply proof that the practical helicopter was an impossibility. Sikorsky did not agree. He had never ceased thinking about rotor-machines in all the 30 years since building his first. While workmen at the Sikorsky plant goggled and shook their heads, Sikorsky began flailing the air with a stationary test device made from the transmission of an old Ford, a motorcycle engine, and a single rotor blade...
That evening, still showing no signs of fatigue, the royal couple shook 2,000 hands at the Greek ambassador's reception, then hurried on to Secretary Dulles' official dinner. Queen Frederika, wearing a cream satin gown, a diamond coronet and the Greek army's Cross of Bravery, bravely tackled the lobster thermidor, roast pheasant, Smithfield ham mousse, marron bombe on nests of spun sugar and three wines. Next morning Their Majesties were up early for a whirlwind tour of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid a sheaf of papers and a Mauser pistol on the table...
...during the next year (with Godfrey last year, he made an estimated $35,000). Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show snapped him up at $3,000 a guest performance. Mamie Eisenhower watched him rehearse for a role in Washington's Navy Relief Ball, afterward shook his hand, repeating again and again, "Isn't he cute? Isn't he cute...
...final freshman touchdown was a 97' yard run by wingback Ron Eikenberry. Eikenberry intercopted a Brown pass on his own three yard line, then shook off two tacklers, cut for the sidelines, and ran the length of the field to score...