Word: shaken
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...national trend toward a slowdown in executions amid fears of wrongful convictions has not shaken the resolve of the Sooner state. "It's the wild West," a minister named Robin Meyers said outside an Oklahoma City courtroom where a death-row inmate's attorneys made an unsuccessful plea for mercy last week. "Texas and Oklahoma are in a race to see who can kill the most people...
Public confidence in government cannot but be shaken by spiteful conflict on an issue that seems so dry and so far removed from political influence. Unfortunately, the sampling battle demonstrated a principle that Americans have witnessed too often in the past election season: what seems to be merely technical can have immense political consequences. Ballot designs are apolitical in theory, but not so in practice; just ask the residents of Palm Beach County. The accuracy of recounts by hand as opposed to by machine may seem to be a simple comparison, but in November, hand counts were apparently good enough...
...This monster was still alive---and still a friend of the politician! The Jewish survivor was bitterly astonished to think that the politician's hand that he had shaken at five in the afternoon might have been shaken at noon by the killer...
...Yale stunned us," Yin said. "We were a little shaken up. It was a wake-up call...
Lately, though, Dr. Seuss is getting out more--a lot more. Since Geisel's death at age 87 in 1991, his widow has taken control of an empire long considered a sleeping giant in the licensing realm, shaken it awake and issued strict marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport stars in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch...