Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of tightening it. Last week, after First Party Secretary Alexander Dubček and two fellow leaders returned from another session in the Kremlin, there were disturbing reports from Prague. "This time the Kremlin leaders did not even bother to debate any point," said a shaken Czechoslovak delegate. "They just dictated terms." In fact, the text of the final communique, which, among other things, acceded to the Soviet demand for permanent stationing of some 100,000 troops in Czechoslovakia, was written before the Czechoslovaks arrived in Moscow...
Helmsing asked that the editors of the paper "change their misguided and evil policy" or at the very least "drop the term Catholic from the masthead." Shaken by the denunciation, the NCR initially refused to comment. But the writers criticized by Helmsing were less reticent. Said Callahan: "Whether my statements are heretical is a judgment for the future rather than for the emotional response of one bishop...
Institutional coherence is also affected by the presence or lack of a spirit of institutional self-confidence. Unhappily, despite her inherent strengths, the spring crisis struck Columbia when her self-confidence was shaken by the decline in relative position in AAUP rankings of graduate departments, the exclusion from a Ford Foundation grant for improvement of graduate studies, the resignations of a number of senior professors, and the Strickman filter incident...
Harvard still has not shaken the injury jinx: senior end Pete Hall and Ananis's replacements. Jim Higgins and Neil Hurley, will all be sidelined...
...Slightly Shaken. This is not the most engaging book that could have been written by McNamara, who can be a very engaging man. Yet in its very self-effacement-in its responsibility toward issues rather than personalities-the book does give a fair measure of the man. He emerges like a slightly shaken chairman of the board who considers it his duty to share his sense of crisis with the stockholders. "We in government have the obligation to explain our decisions," McNamara concludes, "for we know the consequences if we fail...