Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told you to get lots of sleep before the game. No matter that you haven't gone to sleep before two and the guys across the hall are having the biggest party of the year and your bed is positively vibrating from the blasting music and you can't shake the images of annihilating your opponent that you were conjuring up earlier and there's absolutely no way in hell that you're going to get to sleep before four in the morning; you still go to sleep...
...Here is a hero," Nietzsche wrote many years earlier, "who did nothing but shake the tree when the fruit was ripe. But just look at the tree he shook!" The significance of Lindbergh was as complicated as his personality. His exploit, proclaimed precisely because he achieved it alone, served to promote a new age of aviation technology in which men and women would be increasingly absorbed into teams, into bureaucracies. Lindbergh rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even...
...seems the more you like sports, the more times you have to suffer with teams that just miss out, games that are just lost on fluke plays, and coaches that just shake their heads and wonder...
...fact the culmination of a long period of mounting tension on the homey seaside set in California, but this was not apparent to viewers. The buildup was lost and so, too, was the incongruous end of the session. When Nixon had finished his peroration, technicians rushed to shake his hand, congratulating him for getting such a burden off his chest. Frost solicitously walked the ex-President to his Lincoln. Then, as Nixon rode away, Frost clapped with joy. He knew he had taped a gripping show...
Despite periodic shake-ups at the top of ABC News, the network has never taken television journalism as seriously as its rivals have. When ABC was No. 3 across the board, that attitude may have seemed more tolerable. But no longer, now that ABC has become No. 1 in entertainment. Morale at ABC News has been slipping in the face of continued bad ratings, incessant rumors about the future of Walters and Reasoner, and what is perceived as an ambiguous commitment to quality coverage. Even Arledge concedes the network's failing: "ABC's reputation in the past...