Word: shakingly
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...meddles in lives-with the rich wife who knows him for what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...
...mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed kid on a St. Louis street corner. "I Love You." Few of the customers had heard Baker's French, Italian and Spanish specialties before, but when she delivered them in her big soprano with a shake of satiny shoulders and a dip of swiveled hips, the exotics were as easy to take as Tennessee Waltz. In one number, dressed as an Arab street hawker in mountainous fez and awning-striped poncho, she passed out presents of flowers and haberdashery, shook hands, hugged small fry, shared...
Welland has been juggling his lineup in practice in an effort to shake the Crimson out of its recent slump...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...Work We Go. Fire Commissioner George Monaghan reacted to all this sprightly news by hurriedly calling association officers back to duty, and starting a full investigation of the matter. The new scandal also set off another round of shake-ups in city departments which had been jittering nervously ever since the cops ran afoul of the big Brooklyn gambling exposé (TIME...