Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, widely known for his espousal of what he called Art Brut, or "raw art," the work of those untutored and compulsive creators now called "outsider artists." Was he a primitive himself? Of course not: his art is as sophisticated as his writing, and in his apparent desire to shake off the burden of French culture, he was quintessentially French...
Republican advertising, too, has to shake its reactive tendencies. Current NRCC publicity efforts expound on the evils of greater taxation, detailing the harm that tax hikes are likely to cause. But they don't offer an alternative approach, or any indication that the Republican mantra of cutting spending first is achievable. And they don't address the standard Democratic rebuttal: Look what 12 years of lower taxes did to the economy. It's simplistic and misleading, but effective, and the Republicans don't provide a satisfactory response...
...highly self-critical report on its bungled travel-office shake-up, the White House pointed the finger at itself for improperly dismissing seven staffers. Four Clinton staff members were publicly reprimanded, though none was fired...
...lied to me. He just lied all the way through. I made a very reasoned submission to my superiors and went on to other things and discovered to my astonishment a few months later, this man had been promoted. So I was terribly worried, and I started to shake the bars. Finally I was taken aside and told to ask no more questions about the matter. And of course years later I realized that he had been our man, our informant, inside the ring that we had penetrated. Therefore I was actually simply part of his cover story. All they...
...predecessors: Jacqueline Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...