Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis promises to shake the world for at least another five years or longer. It will take that long for importing countries to develop alternative energy sources and more petroleum in nations outside OPEC. Oil will be flowing in from Alaska by 1978, but the total?600,000 bbl. a day at first, 2 million bbl. a day by 1981?will not free the U.S. from the need for foreign supplies. Britain and Norway are each expected to be pumping 2 million bbl. a day from deep below the North Sea by the early 1980s. But the rest of Europe...
...after half its starters come down with cirrhosis of the liver. The Harvard-Yale football game ends in a boring 0-0 tie. At a hastily called press conference afterwards, Bok announces that "they're right--Harvard does such," and lays off hockey coach Billy Cleary '56, "just to shake things...
...last week by Vincent DiPierro, a catering manager who was one of the few witnesses with an unobstructed view of the shooting. In his first public interview since the assassination, DiPierro told the Washington Post that Sirhan was indeed standing in front of Kennedy, but Kennedy had turned to shake someone's hand when Sirhan began firing...
...restore the Legislative Branch as more nearly coequal to the Executive in power and public respect. Such an outcome seemed wildly improbable when the 93rd took office on Jan. 3, 1973, for then even some of its members questioned whether the seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House. But the excesses and crimes of the Nixon Administration prodded the Congressmen into aggressively reclaiming some of their powers. In the end, they helped force the resignations of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and ultimately voted to replace Agnew with Gerald Ford...
...honored personage . . . laureate . . ." In shameful pursuit of all this, people stand to attention, break off all unapproved friendships, obey all wishes of their superiors and condemn any of their colleagues if the party orders them to do so. I think even the sorriest pre-revolutionary intellectual would refuse to shake hands with the most illustrious one in Moscow today...