Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which one can collect the most dust. Instead of studying, I've been contemplating the sexiness of Billy Joe, the lead singer of Green Day (What a babe!), and waiting for "When I Come Around" to get played on WFNX. I dunno, I just can't seem to shake the reading period slacker mentality. Besides listen to the radio, all I do is sit in the dining hall, debate my caffeine addiction, watch the snow fall, and see if I can pick four classes that all show at least one Disney film during the semester. I've also been practicing...
...Dark Age coming but the dawn of the Newt Age. So shake off your gloom, doom and Newtophobia. Let there be color and hope...
Apart from the ability to shake his head and an occasional involuntary flailing of his arms, the 52-year-old Sampedro is a prisoner within a paralyzed body. Propped up in bed in the farmhouse where he lives with his brother, sister-in-law and his aged father, he can see from his window the coast at Xuno and the restless Atlantic beyond. It was at this beach 26 years ago that Sampedro, a mechanic, dived into a rock pool and struck his head on the bottom...
...Ford's urging, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency provided Schweitzer with the optical scanner. One of its case officers gave him a hurry-up course in spy craft: Schweitzer learned emergency codes and signals and roamed northern Virginia shopping malls, practicing how to shake off a tail and how to retrieve messages from dead drops. Cover stories were rehearsed in case he was compromised...
...about the Iris family in a nameless Connecticut hamlet. Augusta Iris is a sad woman, who, abandoned by her husband, can't bear the thought of him living without her. The story is told from alternating points of view, between Augusta and her two sons who unsuccessfully try to shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...