Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THINGS STAND now, the election is a toss-up. The fact that a black and a Republican could pose serious threats to the Democratic crowned prince testifies to the political upheavals that have shaken Mississippi. Ten years ago, Cochran and Evers could not have harbored a hope of winning...
...rods found water? Or did they simply slip apart from the motion of the skeptic's stride? Kaufmann has no doubts. "You've got the gift,: he gloats. "You've got divining power." What did he find? asks the incredulous apostle of science, admittedly a little shaken but hardly converted. "Oh, probably a cesspool," Kaufmann laughs. "That's about all you'd have around here...
...SHAH is beginning to run scared. In response to the recent upheaval, he has ordered several cosmetic political reforms. He has shaken up his cabinet, ostensibly to make it more responsive to the conservative Moslems. He has also promised that all legal parties will be allowed to offer candidates in the future elections. More to the point--because it points up the pattern of the Shah's manipulation of America's anxieties about "stability"--he has begun to fulminate about the role "extremist Islamic marxists" have played in this month's protests. One only has to look at Prime Minister...
...conviction raised questions around the world about the benefits of Carter's zealous espousal of the human rights cause in the Soviet Union. But at the end of the trial, Shcharansky's mother, Ida Milgrom, 70, indicated that Russia's dissidents are thankful for Carter's support. Although shaken by the predictable verdict, the diminutive white-haired woman stood outside the Moscow courtroom in a light summer rain and read a message to Carter before Western correspondents: ''During the painful days of the trial I have not left the iron fence around the courthouse. I faced a thick wall...
...published in China. Indeed, were it not for Chen Jo-hsi's collection of poignant stories set in the China of the '60s and early '70s, it is very likely that the entire epoch, during which the lives of hundreds of millions of people were profoundly shaken, would never have found its way into contemporary literature...