Word: shaken
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...gutsy effort by the Harvard men’s tennis team could not lift the Crimson past Northwestern in its home opener on Friday, as the Wildcats squeaked past Harvard in a contest that came down to the last set on court one. Though the Crimson appeared to have shaken off much of its early-season rust, Harvard fell, 4-3, to a Wildcat squad that was at times overpowering, at times too quick, but very often beatable. With the overall score 3-3, the Crimson’s hopes rested on the shoulders of No. 1 Chris Clayton...
...easy from here on out and we knew that Colgate was a good team,” Chu said. “We didn’t have the poise with the puck that we would have liked.”HARVARD 9, CORNELL 1Harvard looked to have shaken off the Beanpot loss from the outset of Friday night’s game, blowing out Cornell, 9-1, at Lynah Rink.“It was just one of those games where the puck found its way to the net for us,” Chu said...
...killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats and policemen in a delusional campaign of "armed struggle" aimed at revealing a fascist core beneath the self-satisfied mien of West Germany's democratic institutions. In those "years of lead," West Germany seemed hopelessly at war with itself, its self-confidence shaken to the core...
...Lord Balfour said thoughtfully. ''There is not enough to go around.'' In the Middle East there is a permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much at home. The result has been a drama of mutual follies -- of fierce immobilities interlocked, shaken now and then by spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss...
...Japan's postwar boom lasted decades, and even during the stalled 1990s, it was able to live off the fat. Yubari underscores the reason that Japan's faith in a more prosperous future has been shaken. "Yubari citizens are filled with anxiety about the future, and so are a lot of Japanese people," says Sasaya, the snow piling outside his small shop in Yubari's shuttered downtown. "It makes me wonder where Japan is headed." The answer could lie in another Newtonian law: what goes up, must come down...