Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that while some House residents have felt South House has not been getting a "fair shake" in the College, House residents consulted in the selection process thought Wacker would improve that situation...
...crazies have come out in Brooklyn. Stories of octogenarians raped, beaten and killed by prepubescent hoods are now commmonplace. Stories of whole blocks of buildings set afire by arsonists, forcing hundreds of families into the street, are a dime a dozen. It takes a really terrifying crime to shake up any Brookiyners nowadays. It takes a David Berkowitz...
...claimed "responsibility" for a bombing, instead of "credit" for it, "leaving it to others to judge whether it is an act to be 'credited' or not." In such tamped-down language, controversial becomes almost the strongest pejorative that can be hung on someone-and practically impossible to shake (Andrew Young, "controversial" in his first days as Ambassador to the United Nations, seems to be one of the few ever to have shed the label...
...Cabinet shake-up responds to American anger over trade...
When Jonathan L. Scott was brought in as an outsider in 1975, he appeared to be the man to shake up the insular A. & P. Chairman Scott, now 47, swung a cruel ax on "Grandma," as employees sometimes call the venerable food chain. He closed 1,700 stores, released 10,000 employees, borrowed heavily to revamp and enlarge the remaining 1,932 supermarkets. He hired 19 new executives, including Grant C. Gentry, who left the flourishing Jewel chain to become A. & P. president. Said Scott: "I have a philosophy that you should surround yourself with people better than yourself...