Word: shake
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...Ford Administration expects Hathaway to protect America's interior adequately, especially as "Project Independence" pressure grows for accelerated mining of coal and oil shale. Unfortunately, objections of environmentalists in Washington will not shake Senate reluctance to reject a Cabinet nomination. Only extensive public pressure can now spare the country the critical environmental damage that Stanley Hathaway would permit as Secretary of the Interior...
...about to fall. The fateful and almost certainly final siege of Saigon was about to begin. The most frustrating and tragic chapter in the history of U.S. foreign policy was, one way or another, ending. And a new American President, unelected at home and untested abroad, was about to shake off the shackles of past U.S. failures in Southeast Asia and place his own unique stamp on America's global diplomacy by fashioning new policies on which Americans could unite. Such was the setting and the advance billing for what Gerald Ford had promised would be "the most important speech...
...publicly what others were conceding privately. "I guess a lot of Vietnamese are going to die." Somewhat bitterly, he added, "For us, we go on living." Later, Rockefeller insisted that his "too late" view applied only to the fate of the refugees. Yet, while the Saigon government might shake up its personnel, and perhaps even rally some effective defense of the city and the Mekong Delta, its long-range military fate appeared sealed. The Communists, now superior in both firepower and manpower, could take their time in striking the final blows...
Jacobsen's clear, forthright testimony did not seem to shake John Connally, who afterward smiled, squeezed hands and moved easily through the crowd outside the court. Which man's confidence was truly justified may be revealed as Jacobsen faces cross-examination this week from fabled, relentless Defense Counsel Williams. Surely he will raise the question of why his client, a man worth millions, would jeopardize his political future for $10,000. And Connally may have something to say about that when he takes the stand, probably next week...
Every crew is out to demolish the Crimson's national championship standing and, as captain Blair Brooks put it, "the big bad guys from the East." But if the desire for vengeance could shake the earth, three crews which Harvard will face on April 5th would rate highest on the Richter scale...