Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will rely on leading tackler David Stires and the rest of the Crimson line to shake up the Big Green offense, pressuring Fielder--as it did last week against top-rated Chad Roghair--and stopping Rosier...
...high winds forced the first-year men's crew team to practice inside the Weld Boathouse, according to lightweight rower Friedrich K. Walter '95. The strong winds would have caused the boats to shake, disrupting the rowers' timing, Walter said...
Peace, however, is not at hand. International conflicts are settled out of necessity and good will, and good will is strikingly absent from this gathering. Fourteen years ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made Israelis believe that his attitude toward them had changed by flying to Jerusalem and shaking hands with Israelis, smiling all the time. In contrast, rumors now fly that Syrian President Hafez al-Assad will refuse to shake Shamir's hand, (in Madrid--forget Jerusalem) and such a refusal is unlikely to evoke sympathy from Shamir, who has promised his electorate that he will not cede real estate...
Perhaps someone will rise to history's challenge in Madrid, propose a bold new plan, show willingness to compromise, and the Nobel committee can start writing invitations to Shamir, Assad and Arafat. At this point, however, we couldn't even know whether Assad would shake Shamir's hand at the award ceremony...
...Well, of course fares were lower during the '80s. But that was during the shake-out, during the bloodiest fare wars in airline history. That wasn't a normal period...