Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mary from Atlanta, who thought in wide circles about porches and the past and small towns in summer--facts and memories of detail which transfixed her at the wheel of her open car and made her arms shake and her back cold, although these things were not remarkable, and neither was her life. Neither was her life, a life of love although she did not know for what, unless it was for small pictures which occurred to her or which she saw in quiet moments alone staring at the whiteness of the castled city or across the Bay to reddened...
...took the Harvard hockey team a period and a half to shake the opening-game jitters and get itself untracked, But when the Crimson Machine finally revved itself into gear, it exploded with lightning suddenness to squeeze past an improved Northeastern team, 5-4, last night at Watson Rink...
...unfortunate word; a success for yourself out of it. Sure we're having to make a lot of changes, but one of the things I've learned from my own experiences as a director is that you don't change the obvious, uncomplicated problems first, because that will shake up a lot of other things. If I have to change the personnel in a song, for example--which I will--I can do it in two days and that number will work out just fine--when we're ready for it to work. In the meantine, though, the emotions...
...that narrow margin, the Ford Administration averted a second damaging shake-up in the highest reaches of the Government. With political reverberations over his Cabinet shuffle of two weeks earlier not yet stilled, the President obviously could hardly afford a second crisis. Thus he was expected to do what he could to assuage Moynihan and keep him on the job. Similarly, a few days earlier, the President had had to mollify Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had privately complained that the Administration was not giving him full backing in his confrontation with the House Select Committee on Intelligence...
...written a note to President Ford saying he was retiring that day, after nearly 37 years on the court-the longest term served by any Justice in history. When the suddenly subdued lunch eventually ended, Burger and the others each stepped up to the crippled senior Justice to shake hands and whisper a few private words of encouragement and farewell...