Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounded by police, making their open-air speeches from sound trucks and never mixing with the crowd. They wave to the crowds from inside, and when a stop is made, a corridor of police forms for the politician to move from vehicle to building. Breaking through such lines to shake hands is all but unheard...
...York default would seriously shake the value of bonds issued by other cities; some municipalities are already finding it hard to raise money from investors. New York Mayor Abraham Beame therefore won unanimous support from his 14 colleagues on the executive committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who journeyed with him to Washington last week to plead for federal aid. With a touch of hyperbole Denver Mayor William H. McNichols told Congress's Joint Economic Committee that "every city in the nation is like a tenant in the same building." The mayors proposed two alternative plans: 1) that...
...here deals with the lives of men and women only in terms of the traditional roles so many of us--men and women--are trying to shake ourselves out of. How difficult this process is going to be, and how much support we are all going to need, was evidenced in the article in the magazine on mothers and their sons. It quoted a dozen women, all feminists, agonizing over the question of how to raise their sons. The women despaired of being able to counteract the influence of a sexist society, and were afraid that raising their sons...
Sometimes Plath's reading gives these poems a meaning that appears to be unintentional. During the climactic lines of "Lady Lazarus," a poem about the poet's repeated suicide attempts, her usually well-modulated voice seems to shake involuntarily...
...straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane Red Sox junkie would shake his or her head, order up another stiff one, and forget about it--think about the Baltimore Orioles and other more immediate matters. Hell, the sportswriters, who treated Rice like nothing short of an apparition from heaven above all year have cursed and moved on. He'll be back next year...