Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Lord Snowdon, blossomed again last week. In her Washington Post column, Maxine Cheshire reported that "Snowdon is the one, according to informed sources, who is insisting upon freedom. On recent trips to New York he has been taking out a Vogue magazine staffer." That was enough to shake Buckingham Palace, which ordinarily maintains a stony silence in the face of gossip about the royal family. "No, it's simply not true," retorted the Princess's press secretary. Lord Snowdon's private secretary was more equivocal. "I do admire the Americans," she said, "but they are naughty...
...than any competitor. Winner of the Heisman Trophy by a lopsided vote, he not only led the Indians to their first Rose Bowl bid in 18 years but rolled up 7,887 yds. in total offense, a new career record for major-college quarterbacks. Big and brawny enough to shake off tacklers, Plunkett is a classic pro-style drop-back passer with a strong, accurate arm at all ranges. Rival coaches praise his tactical knowledge, his knack for reading defenses, his ability to command "the utmost respect of his teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite...
...girls. Every Wednesday night is "soul night," on which some 500 sailors, 80% of them black, dance to the music of the Exquisite Diatonics and treat their dates to 40¢ drinks. Bachelor officers don psychedelic sports shirts and casual sweaters to meet local girls at their own club and shake to such groups as the Swingers or the Sounds of Time...
...attack against the independent state of Guinea, Portugal intended to destroy the foundation of the PAIGC, to release political prisoners of the DPG (Democratic Party of Guinea-the national party of Guinea) which supports the struggle in Guinea-Bissau and shares a border with Guinea-Bissau, to shake severely the free government of Guinea and undermine/destroy its position of aiding the independence movement of the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. Another reason for this blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions...
...Calley had stopped Conti from attacking women; that, in My Lai, Conti had threatened to shoot a woman's baby if she refused to submit; that Conti hated Calley and wanted "to see Lieut. Calley hang, Kay elicited only denials on these points, but he did manage to shake Conti's calm. When Kay persisted about Conti's supposed quest for women on the day of the shootings, asking, "You found one, didn't you?" Conti replied: "This was later in the day, up by the river way beyond My Lai 4." The defense also underscored...