Word: unshaken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidently of much sterner stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...
Death's Heads & Ludendorff. Meanwhile from the Baltic to the Rhine every German radio station was linked day and night in an unending broadcast of guttural triumph. "The chains have fallen!" blared the Nazi Party official broadcast. "Like a phalanx, in unshaken unity and solidarity, stand the people and the Führer...
...think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone-when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will-then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -the subtle rapture...
...Croix, where guest and hosts motored across the island, visited abandoned rum distilleries, more subsistence homesteads. Only untoward event was a parade in Christiansted, staged by the local Democratic Club. where marchers carried banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...
Owing to his unshaken poise, the only punishment which will be meted out to the Colonel for the unhappy occurrence, is two weeks' service...