Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historic oath, she reminded her colleagues--some of them still fingering the souvenir pens with which they signed the impeachment book. Did they really want to start the process with such a partisan move? She appealed to a sense of personal trust that has not dissolved completely; Senators still shake hands across the aisles. The mood in the room swept behind her as Republicans rose in agreement. Said Larry Craig of Idaho, a conservative: "If there's any chance of not having this be a partisan vote...
...hazardous to your...marriage? Well, yes. New research finds smokers are 53% more likely to divorce than nonsmokers. Granted the filthy habit is a turnoff, but the real reason behind the breakups may be that smokers are more likely to suffer from problems like depression and anxiety--which can shake up any marriage...
...York Times in a story about how conservatives were coming to grips with the fact that most people did not want Bill Clinton pushed out of office. And Bennett, the author of The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, was left to shake his head at how the American people had abandoned him. "For the first time in my adult life," he said, "I'm not in sync...
...understood, running over to shake the hands of the Marises, whose father had been resented for breaking Babe Ruth's record without a Babe Ruth career. McGwire spoke of Maris to the press, making sure his predecessor, on whom he probably only recently got briefed, finally got his due in memoriam. McGwire was making sure, even in his moment of pure exultation and relief, that he did the right thing. Hug son, hug teammates, hug ex-wife, hug Marises and, oh, yeah, touch first base...
...everything has gone wrong. Oceans warmed by climate change have risen so fast that the Dutch are waging Cold War II against Uncle Sam. The devaluation of software to zero (the Chinese post it all free on the Net) snapped the economy like a dry twig. Air Force squads shake down drivers on the highways. Roving "radical proles" terrorize the dwindling bourgeoisie. Oscar's base of operations, a beleaguered Texas biotech lab, faces a funding cutoff and a Governor wielding biological weapons. And some Net robot keeps spamming lists of madmen, urging them to knock Oscar...