Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation came to a head when a menacing dealer forced his way into Eric's mother's home and demanded that she pay him the $200 her son owed him. Shortly thereafter, Eric entered a rehabilitation program called Pride. After four months, he emerged shaken but sober. He has dropped all his crack-smoking friends but worries about temptation. "Coke is still all around me," he says...
...Bassam Abu Sharif, the spokesman for P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, charged that Israeli leaders, frustrated by their inability to quell the Palestinian uprisings, had decided to "liquidate" senior P.L.O. members. Arafat, on a tour of the gulf states in search of support for the protest activities, was described as badly shaken by the slaying of his heir apparent...
Weld predicted that McKay will charge that Meese violated the "Standards of Ethical Conduct for Government Officers and Employees," an ethics code that carries no criminal penalties but would require action by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility. The shaken Meese tried to persuade the two not to do anything "hotheaded." They said their resignations had already been handed to White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker...
...package will keep the freedom fighters together, body and soul," said a senior White House official. "It also provides the option to get new aid to them if the Sandinistas do not live up to their pledges." But the Administration was nevertheless shaken by the unexpected deal signed at Sapoa. "The contras jumped the gun, got out of control, by signing," said an official. After a Washington meeting last week with three of the rebel leaders who signed the Sapoa agreement, a State Department official contended that the contras had signed the cease-fire on the assumption that it would...
...respect to the young man, it did not seem right that he would assume authority in this matter." Indeed, the effrontery rapidly escalates. Before long, Chuck is in Doug's bedroom demanding a signed blank check and displaying (accidentally?) a holstered revolver strapped around his ankle. Doug is shaken by this experience. "How's that for a Sunday at the shore?" he complains to his daughter-in-law. "You can get your head blown off for no reason, by a houseguest you don't even know...