Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billed himself as a man who could grab Washington by the scruff of its neck and shake some sense into it. But when Jimmy Carter left the capital last week after a hectic two-day visit, the self-styled "outsider" smiled and allowed, "I feel at home here." Washington seemed to feel at home with...
...Peter was an easy guy to pick on. He was all alone in the world at that time." Others felt that in a small community where serious crimes are rare, local officials had made a hasty, emotional commitment to Reilly's guilt that they soon found impossible to shake...
...last Wednesday, walls began to shake and buckle in Muradiye, a hardscrabble, mud-and-stone mountain town near the Turko-Iranian border. Soon houses were crumbling across an area of 300 sq. mi. The worst Turkish earthquake in nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
Former residents generally shake their heads philosophically when asked about the "new Pennypacker." Samuel A. Bern '79, who last year fled the dorm to the co-ed environment of South House, says his decision would probably have been different this year. "The facilities weren't so bad," he says, and if there had been women around to "make the place seem less like a locker room," he would have stayed at Pennypacker instead of transferring...
Layzer said that most adherents to the heredity view have "some political ax to grind," citing their support of tougher immigration laws and other "exclusionary legislation." He said that "these people believe the I.Q.-heredity correlation is high. Nothing will shake that belief. They believe those numbers...