Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months captured the headlines of the national press, yet only about half the provinces have taken part in it and then usually with meetings and discussions in a few universities and institutes. Although not always the case, at times the masses can subtly ignore the issues that shake the leadership...
...initial impression which clicks when you shake Tony Celebrezze's hand and listen to him talk is one of solidity and careful seriousness. Thirty-eight years old, Celebrezze has had two years' experience in the Ohio State Senate. Name recognition is no problem--Celebrezze comes from a prominent Cleveland political family. His father, Anthony Sr., presently a federal District Court judge in southern Ohio, was mayor of Cleveland and HEW Secretary under John F. Kennedy '40. His uncle is a Cleveland municipal judge, one cousin is an Ohio state senator and another--also a former state senator--is running against...
...stable seemed on the verge of collapse. The French franc lost 3.7% of its value against the dollar and the Italian lira 8.6%. The British pound, weakened by confusion surrounding the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, continued to trade at record low prices. As anxiety began to shake the money of other nations, traders rushed to buy up strong West German marks. That left West German authorities struggling to avert a formal upward revaluation of the mark, which would discourage exports and slow the country's recovery from recession...
...timers, streams into the greenroom after curtain calls and a crew of T-shirted techies replaces the actors on stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling" won't hit them until the sober Sunday morning after...
ONCE, WHEN I WAS coming home from school on a bus filled with black people, someone turned up the radio music and everybody on the bus began to stomp their feet in time. The bus rattled, the bridge we were crossing seemed to shake, and far below on the roof of a factory a huge flock of pigeons that somehow sensed the apocalyptic moment bestirred itself and rustled off in fright. Just then the song had a rawness and currency that it has since lost in the thousands of times it has been replayed, years later, at white people...