Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some agreement was crucial as part of the effort to restore confidence in monetary arrangements, lately shaken by the gold crisis and buffeted by wrangles over the future role of gold in global finance. What the pact demonstrated is that most of the West's leading nations are still able to overcome parochial concerns and organize in the interest of economic stability...
...case of the rescue squad arriving barely in time. The international monetary system was like a man who falls off a cliff and lands on a tree on the way down-bruised and shaken, but alive and susceptible to recovery. More auspiciously, the bankers' decision gave new urgency to the hitherto torpid efforts to turn the creaking system of international exchange into something better fit for today's world...
McCarthy's entry into the primaries against an incumbent President was unforeseen. His appeal on the stump, despite a low-key approach, was unforeseen. Most unforeseen of all-by the pollsters, by newsmen and by a shaken...
THAT confidence has been shaken, virtually shattered, by the British devaluation and the prospect of an enlarged U.S. balance-of-payments deficit. Speculators took a look at the vast foreign holdings of dollars and were convinced that the announced dollars price of gold could not be maintained; they wanted to be holding gold if the U.S. devalued...
...next opponent--The Winnipeg Rowing Club--planned to run away from Harvard at the start and then try to hold on at the finish. The Canadians pulled mightily, but their American adversaries, rowing at a slower pace, would not be shaken...