Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 9 along strict party lines to reject his nomination of former Senator John Tower to be Secretary of Defense. The main reason: Democrats on the committee said they could not accept the Administration's claims that Tower had shaken the excessive drinking habits he displayed in the 1970s...
Their physical abuse, threats, and homophobic taunts and insults, left me shaken, confused and angry. I, in turn, would hope for an apology from them, and hope they will respond...
...Yale coach's behavior is] not surprising," Harvard coach Branimir Zivkovic said. "He hasn't shaken my hand for ten years...
Asked if he took Khomeini's threat seriously, Rushdie, clearly shaken, replied, "I think I have to take it very seriously indeed." He canceled a planned book tour in the U.S., moved out of his four-story house in North London and, under protection of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad, quietly disappeared. Then, in a formal statement released on Saturday, he declared, "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam...
Many organizations devoted to the arts -- and not a few corporations -- are badly shaken by the transition from a founding father to a new generation of more practical managers. The changeover is always bumpier if the founder's departure is forced. But rarely is the switch as onerous and nasty, or the repercussions so lingering, as in the boardroom battle that in 1986 ousted William Ball from San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Even today, Ball's successors seek to justify his removal by selling the theme of "renewal" to a still skeptical public...