Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haitian priest and aide to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says President ) Bush lost the election because he is under a voodoo curse. No wonder he couldn't shake the voodoo economics habit! Was Ronald Reagan a victim...
...women's reformation continues to shake up the Protestant churches as well. Fierce conflicts have occurred in the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Since local congregations have power to ordain, there is a sprinkling of women pastors and lay deacons. But the rising Fundamentalists who run national agencies passed a 1984 resolution against the practice and do all they can to discourage it. Even in the more progressive Presbyterian, Methodist and United churches, leaders worry about the implicit "patriarchy" that excludes women from the powerful pulpits and relegates them to small parishes or associate positions...
...life- styles" as morally equivalent; the godless who, Bush reminded us, forget to put the three letters G-O-D in their party platform. Most of all, it went after liberals, especially those who pretended to be something else. The Republican campaign had spawned more demons than you could shake a crucifix...
...YEAR WHEN INCUMBENT HAD BECOME SUCH A dirty word that one expected to hear it bleeped on TV talk shows, both parties were braced for a shake-out in Congress. It didn't happen. While voters put 105 new faces in Congress, the most since 1949, both houses remained firmly in Democratic hands. Democrats gained one seat in the Senate, while Republicans may pick up just 9 in the House -- far short of the 51 they needed to end 38 years of Democratic control. Ninety or more of the incoming 103rd Congress will be female, black or Hispanic, a record...
...told Clinton, "your voice is gone. Hillary can do it." But no one could dissuade Clinton. Pumped up after giving an eight-minute speech, with his voice hoarse but not cracking, Clinton told Begala, "I want to go to the racetrack thing. I won't talk. I'll only shake hands...