Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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History shows that Bundy has not been very good at anything since he left Harvard. However, having gotten into the habit of wielding enormous power, he has not been able to shake it, much to the regret of many people who did not ask him to wield it and who have not particularly appreciated the results...
When Managua was first built in 1858-over the same 30-mile-wide fault area that was to shake it to rubble three times in the next 114 years-it was a creature of compromise. The site was chosen to end a stalemated battle between what were then Nicaragua's two principal cities, Granada (pop. 48,000) and León (pop. 80,000), for the honor of serving as the capital. After the city was wrecked for the second time in 1931, the old Granada-Leon battle resumed, but government planners argued successfully for Managua's reconstruction...
...personal competence of the two men. Issues of economic and social justice became lost in a tangle of doubts about McGovern himself. First he proposed a $1,000-a-year guarantee for every American, only to revise the suggestion later. Then came the Eagleton affair. McGovern never could shake the charge, however unfair, that he was the candidate of "amnesty, acid and abortion." He was, too many voters believed, an indecisive radical ? the worst kind...
...acquisition is Mahoney's latest effort to shake up the corporation that he was chosen to run in 1969 with the strong support of Norton Simon, who put it together. Soon after, Simon sold out his interest to devote himself to art collecting. Mahoney, now 49, took charge of a loose group of enterprises-Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry soft drinks, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other liquors, Redbook and McCall's magazines, David Susskind's television-production firm (Talent Associates) and even companies that manufacture tin cans...
...more questions that we ought to expect.) He has discovered an authentic American philosopher in the literary tradition right under our noses and he tries to show us how to approach Thoreau and his work, though it is written in a "language dead to degenerate times." He tries to shake our belief that we no longer need a book to tell our lost nation how to live. Cavell can be thoroughly confusing at times, but at his best he provocatively illuminates both Walden and Thoreau...