Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience rushed to shake his hand and get his autograph. Rocky, in fact, was engulfed by more well-wishers than even Wallace. Noting how much Rocky and Wallace had in common, Maryland Lieutenant Governor Blair Lee declared, "The political situation is getting spooky around here." Asked if Wallace had written the speech for Rocky, an aide to the Alabama Governor replied, "We lost a speech the other day. Now I know who found...
...chimney toppled into the kitchen during the 1906 San Francisco disaster. Like many Californians, she has often felt the earth move. The last time was in June. While Castro sat reading a Virginia Woolf novel on a mountain in the Coast Range, the earth began to "boogie and shake." Suddenly she realized that she had chosen a vacation spot "right on top of the San Andreas Fault...
...There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle...
Despite repeated, often shouted questions, Prosecutor Griffin failed to shake her story. Why had she never "screamed, hollered, slapped or run" from Alligood? "Mr. Griffin, if you had been a woman, you wouldn't have known what to do either. I was scared." Why hadn't she reported Alligood's earlier advances? "In Washington, N.C., coming up as a black woman, it's different saying what you did and having your word go up against a white person's." Griffin took her over the painful details again and again. "Did you go down on your...
...worries the nation cannot shake is that the quickening economic recovery will be accompanied by-or perhaps cause-a rekindling of inflation. Last week that fear became considerably more chilling. The Labor Department reported that the Wholesale Price Index jumped at a startling compound annual rate of 15.4% in July, paced by higher farm and processed-food prices. Although the index bounces around erratically from month to month (it declined a shade in June), there is no reason to think that August figures will be much better. The latest report covers only part of the surge in grain prices that...