Word: shake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yaobang, who had died the previous weekend at 73, the throngs of university students actually had a much more provocative, and important, goal in mind: a demand for greater democratization in the world's most populous country. Implicit in the spreading protest campaign was a call for a shake-up in China's Communist leadership, including the retirement of Deng Xiaoping, 84, after a decade in power. In a scene never witnessed in the 40 years of Communist rule, more than 1,000 students assembled outside the ornate red-lacquered gate of Zhongnanhai compound, where the top leaders officially live...
...Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant incisions like their grandfathers' and being sewn up like a football when a tiny hole would do," he recalls. "I saw the chance to make a difference." There were about five such surgeons in the country at the time (there are close to 500 now), and Koop...
...their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming for a final. To their favorite players they are both sons and fathers -- part hero worshipers, part child psychologists. They become a collective, possessive lover of their idols. Baseball fever: boys catch it, men can't shake...
...pale gray eyes ask for empathy. "See, I don't have that in me anymore. When my dad got killed, you know, I could stick a gun in somebody's head and not shake and think about it. I can't do that anymore, so I'm getting out. I've got money put aside...
...opportunity with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis Tuesday, legislators and hockey players milled about the governor's cramped office trying to make conversation. State Representaive Robert A. Havern '72 (D-Arlinton), a former Crimson center who played under Coach Bill Cleary, said, "I can't wait to see the governor shake hands with Billy--you know his politics, 20 steps to the right of Attila the Hun." During the 10-minute meeting, there was no discussion of politics, and the session went without incident...