Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which fragile one-man accomplishments can become the cornerstone of future policy, to be carried on by his successors. With his wide experience, his considerable prestige and his special position in the White House, Henry Kissinger, just turned 50, will be a sort of Super Secretary, uniquely equipped to shake up the old systems and reach his ambitious goals...
...first arrived at Harvard, Boston was in the hot cycle, the humid sticky horrible part of its nature. In Boston, people boil half the time and freeze the other half. It is called forced adaptation. The hot cycle is for halters, for lying undressed on your bed trying to shake off the lethargy, and for ice cream cones with jimmies...
...will have to decide whether or not to take the path of least resistance. The dilemma, of course, is that the easy life comes for free. If you are lazy, it is the only way to go. If you want to get rid of the jimmies, you have to shake them...
Hunt vehemently denies that he and his wife were attempting to shake down the White House for hush money. "Every time I hear the word blackmail it makes my blood boil. It wasn't blackmail or hush money ... It was maintenance payments and lawyers' fees, the same sort of arrangement that the CIA gives its agents who are captured. We had no silence to sell. We knew the grand jury would be impaneled following the trial, and that we would be immunized and forced to talk. Just because John Dean thought he was paying hush money doesn...
...shakier the U.S. economy looks at home, the stronger it suddenly appears overseas-or so it seemed last week. Domestically, the news was all of upward-spiraling inflation and fears of recession. But internationally, the U.S. began to shake off its image of a pitiful, helpless economic giant...