Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will or the whim of top union leaders can shake the U.S. economy. Yet it begins to seem that even the mightiest unions cannot hold a simple election without charges of fraud...
...problems could open the starting lineup to a number of sophomores. The only sophomore starter on the southern trip was outfielder Dan Hootstein, but outfielder Bobby Leo, who chiefly saw pinchhitting duty on the tour, and first baseman Joe O'Donnell might find slots if Shepard should decide to shake the team up by juggling the lineup...
Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures finds the clue to moral regeneration...
...Same Goal. The mating of artist and academe may never be perfect. Cornell recently celebrated its centennial with a four-day exploration of "The Universities and the Arts" at Lincoln Center in which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement...