Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know Mr. and Mrs. Danny F.X.'s last name and no one seems to care. So everyone just calls them Mr. and Mrs. F.X. Mrs. Danny yelled up to Grogan from her end of the bar, "We been up the State House with Danny F.X.'s brother Ernie to shake the Govahnah's hand at the Washington's Birthday party. All Ernie's teeth are comin' out. They's beautiful teeth but they got to come...
Schwartz is a central figure in the second turbulence to shake the Council. Last fall, when David Feintuch assumed the editorship of the Graduate Bulletin, it was a monthly sheet measuring about 12 by 4 inches, and devoted solely to announcements of graduate affairs: meetings, sports tournaments, and Council minutes...
Still, in every caricature, there was always some saddening or joyous truth, just as in Wolfe himself; when he could shake whatever demon was riding him, there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains...
...door, and out of each stepped a neatly dressed civilian or high-ranking military officer, accompanied by a second officer and two soldiers. Inside the yellow stone villa, television cameras whirred and flashbulbs popped as the twelve men nodded quietly to friends and relatives, occasionally stopping to shake hands. Thus last week President Gamal Abdel Nasser opened his show trial of the first of 54 former government and military leaders charged with plotting his overthrow in the wake of last June's Arab-Israeli...
...work out his luck when he came to the Pennsy, Saunders had two major aims. One was to shake awake a slumbering, 121-year-old railroad that had stumbled onto hard times. Falling earnings and a high debt had led the road's conservative management to cut back on new spending; the Pennsy had hardly enough modern equipment to remain competitive. The new boss changed all that by allocating huge funds ($577 million in the last three years alone) for new equipment and by branching out into fields other than railroading. His other goal was to push through...