Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also lacked their visibility--and thus did not make an easy target or scapegoat when CIA projects went awry, as they did with increasing frequency after the early "successes" of the Cold War. He covered his tracks well, and when superiors sacked other, more imaginiative CIA men in the shake-ups that followed such failures as the ill-advised backing of Indonesian rebels against Sukarano in 1958 or the doomed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Helms was passed over; he was a survivor...
...most bruising internal struggles in the 79-year history of the British Labor Party. At a mauling annual conference in Brighton last week, a successful left-wing challenge wrested effective control of the party from moderate Leader James Callaghan. It pointed toward a radical policy shift that could shake up British politics for years to come. It catapulted leftist Chieftain Tony Benn into a front-running position as heir apparent to the party leadership...
...enough unscarred hide left to make a decent lamp shade. Watchful appraiser of the sandy-rumped beach ladies. Creaking knight errant, yawning at the thought of the next dragon." John MacDonald acknowledges that his hero "could not have gone on in that vein without boring me. I had to shake him up." In Green, Travis gets rocked, socked and knocked from boots to brains...
...year is 1855. Border raids between Missouri and Kansas, and hatred of Eastern abolitionists, shake McKay's project to the ground. The bees get a disease; most of them die. McKay and Catherine retreat to Boston. In the process, real people as well as real historical events glance off the angles of McMahon's sto ry. Among the people: Louis Agassiz, 19th century America's most celebrated naturalist, cold to Darwin's evolutionary theories because he regards each species of plant or animal as. "in itself, a thought...
...drive to Chaklala Airport with Kissinger wearing sunglasses and a hat "to ensure that no stray pedestrian spotted me? an unlikely contingency at that hour in Islamabad, where my name was scarcely a household word." During his flight to Peking, Kissinger recalled how John Foster Dulles had refused to shake Chou En-lai's hand at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina. "The slight, "he writes, "had not been forgotten; it was referred to on many occasions in the days afterward and on subsequent visits." Kissinger was determined to make amends. Installed in a guesthouse in a walled-off park...