Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrants onto his bus (where everyone was singing Harvard fight songs), and after we had scoured the ballroom for forgotten handbags and gloves (discovering mostly lost shoes instead), the head chauffeur hugged the executive secretary and then they both looked at all the rest of us and shook their heads warmly and sadly. It was like straight out of one of Chekhov's final curtains, all the faithful family retainers standing around chuckling knowingly over the foolishness of their masters...
Glazed Eyes. Yet, when the trial came to an end last week, only a few hundred spectators were on hand. Mrs. Huggins alternately smiled, wept and shook her head; Scale sagged low in his seat, eyes glazed. Then, in what seemed more a marriage ceremony than a murder trial, the two rose and embraced after the judge declared: "The motion to dismiss is granted in each case and the prisoners are discharged forthwith...
Aboard Radio Northsea, a ship that broadcasts pop music and news to Western Europe and Britain from just outside the Dutch three-mile territorial limit, Disc Jockey Alan West was playing a tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. "I thought another ship had hit us in the fog," said West, but when he rushed on deck he saw three men in wetsuits heading toward Scheveningen beach in a motor-powered rubber boat. West sped back to his microphone and shouted: "May Day, May Day, this is Radio Northsea. We are on fire...
...night when the boys were all abed, we heard the long roll beat, And quickly the walls of the building shook with the tread of hurrying feet; And when the battalion stood in line we heard the welcome warning, Breckinridge needs the help o' the corps; be ready to march in the morning...
...there were in my lock-up, perhaps ten "fellow travellers" who were over forty years old. They were all wonderful, particularly a gray-haired woman who stood across from me smiling as we were being released, and shook her head. "I'm sorry, in a way that this is over," she said. "You are all so right... Right On." And then she clenched her fist and said that she would see us all in jail the next...