Word: shake
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stopped their high-spending ways. On the other side were the powerful city unions, some of which have threatened to shut down New York with a general strike if officials cut the budget too deeply. The squeeze pushed the city closer than ever before to a default that would shake money markets in the nation and world and left the city's leaders exhausted and dispirited. Pleading for help from Washington, Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp. (Big Mac), plaintively said: "We just cannot go on like this much longer...
...more concerned with Northeast Asia-Korea and Japan -than with Indochina. The Viet Nam earthquake may yet shake loose the fragile peace on the Korean peninsula. Fired by the Communist victory in Indochina, North Korea's President Kim II Sung seemed to some observers to be on the verge of invading South Korea last spring; he even went to Peking to seek Chinese support but came back chastened. China, he learned, wanted the Korean situation to remain peaceful for the time being, with an American garrison of 42,000 men as a counterweight to the Soviet presence in Siberia...
President Ford thinks the American people have a right to see him and shake his hand. Don't we also have the right not to go through another presidential assassination...
Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro huddled with his Cabinet three times last week. After Friday's session, the government announced a shake-up of the army command, naming a tough new head of the Guardia Civil and new commanders for four military regions, including Madrid. The next day, the government released eleven Basques being held for terrorist acts. Four Basques remain in jail, awaiting sentences for cop-killing; under a law enacted last August, a mandatory death sentence faces anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
...There was a fantastic fear and guilt attached to all that, and I don't think anybody who grows up in that kind of system escapes those scars, or can be rid of them very easily. It really took me a hell of a lot to shake off some of that stuff. I think for a large number of people in this book that was true--a large number of them have spent years and years and years trying to fight their way out from under all that crap that was laid on them when they were young...