Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City plant, where reporters had signed a petition protesting the sale, the news arrived quietly. An editor walked almost unnoticed through the city room with a single sheet of white paper in his hand and tacked it on the bulletin board. Gradually, employees sauntered up for a look and shook their heads. No committed craftsman yields easily to change. "There's no great wailing and gnashing of teeth," said a reporter, "but there is no joy in Newsday tonight...
...little boy held Mystery's halter. "Hey, Billy, did you ride him?" someone called. The boy shook his head...
...watch a pair of television sets that brought them the news of the judge's defeat. "It was like a wake," said one woman. After the Senate vote, Tallahassee Postmaster Peyton L. Yon Sr., one of Carswell's favorite bridge partners, walked over to the judge and shook his hand. "I sure am glad we didn't lose you to Washington and glad we'll keep you in Tallahassee," he said. The Carswells accepted his consolation, then retired to their bedroom to compose themselves before driving downtown to face newsmen...
...green wool sports jacket and rolled-down black socks. We wandered, wondering just which one of those yellow buildings was the Dana Palmer House. where Auden was staying. With some help we found it, and, with a pixie-like grin. oddly childlike on his wrinkled face, he shook my hand, thanked me, and shuffled hurriedly away...
John Boyle didn't fare any better in the giant slalom. "John hit a bad piece of ice and ran into the woods. Fortunately he wasn't hardly hurt, but the incident shook his confidence a bit." McCollom said...