Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Link was a classic investigator who often shook hoodlums by their lapels to get them to tell the truth. Among his more celebrated stories: the uncovering of a bloodthirsty gang in the 1920s known as the Green Ones, and a series that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post-Dispatch in 1952. Its detailing of corruption led to an overhaul of the Internal Revenue Bureau in Missouri and the resignation of William Boyle, then the Democratic national chairman...
...fellow played a game of ping pong with me. He kept score and he didn't cheat or try to bully me over close calls. After I beat him, by two points, he shook my hand and said "good game" and went to shoot pool...
Four weeks later she had lost 25 pounds, her skin had sunk into sallow caves in her face. After five weeks she had strength only to fix her daily grain and tea, and she had lost muscle control so she would scatter the food in spasms that shook her as she prepared...
...overflow crowd gave the Crimson five several standing ovations during the course of the game and during Harvard's second half comeback the IAB shook with noise. "Hey, it's always nice" Sanders commented on the loud crowd and added it "puts a lot of heat in the place...
...shook his head, smiled, revealing a new set of false teeth, and said, 'Really, it doesn't pay to leave. We'll soon be back anyhow...