Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years looks something like a three-tiered wedding cake. But most of its tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...world. They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those woods lovely, dark and deep. For readers who like to shake a poem as children shake a piggy bank until the coin of meaning jingles out. Frost had pots of jingly messages. "Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there is that does not love a wall...
...shake the groundlings...
...were more so than Transitron Electronic Corp. of Wakefield, Mass. Its stock went from 36 to 60 in six months, and its sales from $7.4 million to $47 million between 1956 and 1960. But when electronics dipped in mid-1961, partly because of fast-rising imports, none felt the shake-out so sharply as Transitron (which closed last week at 7⅜). And nobody had more trouble than its enterprising brother-founders, David and Leo Bakalar...
...comprehensive economic planning along the lines now practiced in France. But the report left Europe's automakers unmoved. They mostly agree that overcapacity will result if all present expansion plans are carried out, and they frankly admit that within the next few years they expect a shake-out similar to the one that rocked the U.S. auto industry in the 1920s. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 40: "There are about 40 automobile manufacturers in Europe today; 20 of them will probably have disappeared by 1970." But Agnelli, along with most of his competitors, believes that...