Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couch in his trinket-filled Spanish- style living room, looking like a schoolboy with bad grades. His hands are clasped between his knees, and his eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet in our head." Almost inaudibly he sighs...
...landing on the White House lawn may have had little long-term impact on U.S. policy of any sort. But Mathias Rust's 16-day joyride, having already shaken the Soviet defense establishment, could have some enduring consequences for the Kremlin -- and the West...
...bank's future prosperity. The income from those loans was dwindling because of all the concessionary terms -- lengthened repayment schedules, lowered interest rates -- that creditors worldwide have been granting to Third World debtors in order to keep them from defaulting. Then the entire international credit edifice was badly shaken last February when Brazil announced an indefinite moratorium on payments of interest and principal on $68 billion of its $108 billion in total debts, the largest in the Third World. Citicorp alone stood to lose about $450 million this year as a result of Brazil's decision...
...Badly shaken by the scandals, PTL last week put its debt at $65 million and began laying off 220 of its 2,000 employees. Assemblies Superintendent Carlson said the scandal "has been most painful, very difficult, embarrassing and humiliating" for his group, the fastest-growing Protestant denomination in the U.S. The Assemblies have ordered a special day of prayer and fasting for all 10,886 congregations...
...kept informed by North about almost everything he did, poses the most direct peril to the President. Cool and at least outwardly serene at the center of the scandal, the pipe-puffing admiral has told friends he intends to lay his story out candidly and will not be shaken by others. He has privately said he feels that he kept the President informed of the Iran and contra-funding operations, including telling him in general terms on at least two occasions that the Iranian operations were benefiting the contras. Some committee members were irked last week when Reagan seemed...