Word: shaked
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What's the first thing you do if the ground beneath you starts to rumble and the walls begin to shake? Grab the kids and run? Check your home-insurance policy? Fall on your knees and pray for deliverance? All logical enough reactions, but not your very first one. Instead, even when faced with imminent disaster, you'll spend precious time asking, "What was that?" It's called the cognitive imperative, the uniquely human, hardwired instinct to link cause with effect that gave us a vital evolutionary advantage over other animal species. After all, the noise could be just...
...still-shaken hostage, a mouse of a man unable to look a Western female television interviewer in the eye nor shake her hand, there was no sense of a holy place. Grabbed at a Baghdad hospital while visiting a brother being treated for gunshot wounds, he said his captors initially told him they were intelligence officers from the Ministry of Interior, a department Western officials privately claim is stacked with Iranian-backed militia forces...
...industrious China, and soon India. As in previous ruptures, France today faces a major choice. It can refuse to fight in the global competition, indulge its cozy habit of the 35-hour week, defend its privileges tooth and nail, and watch its talented youth go abroad. Or it can shake up the well-protected to give more opportunity to the more vulnerable, slash public spending and reduce debt and modernize its social pact to allow French people - particularly its youth - to believe in the future. In short, France has to topple new Bastilles. The only problem is that these days...
...able to hit a fastball, but you have one thing in common with Major League Baseball players. Like any Yankee or Marlin, you want to shake the stiffness of winter out of your carcass and bound into spring like a line drive. Which is why following a spring-training regimen of muscle-stretching and flexibility exercises can be so important. Not coincidentally, the stretching regimen that most pro-baseball teams use may be the best way to go. Reason: baseball, compared with such physical-contact sports as football or such running-intense games as soccer, more closely parallels the average...
...classmates and I graduate this June, we will celebrate first amidst the pomp and circumstance of a 30,000-person-strong ceremony. But then we will travel the blocks to our House courtyards, where our House masters will hand us our diplomas in an intimate ceremony. We will shake hands with a receiving line of teary-eyed tutors who have seen us grow from sophomores to seniors. The underclassmen who have stuck around for Commencement will stand on the sidelines, bearing witness as the most recent generation leaves with fond memories of the House and the new generation?...