Word: shaken
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...driver, who appeared to be in his mid-twenties, was visibly shaken after the incident but suffered only lacerations on his hand. He was treated in an ambulance on the scene for about 45 minutes before being taken home...
...Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley as he walked trails leading processions of porters toting pickaxes, shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble. In late November, he went to check up on five widows for whom he had built lean-tos on a steep mountainside above the city of Muzaffarabad, not far from the quake's epicenter. To his dismay, George discovered that the structures had been torn down...
...family out of ignorance and fear.” Early AIDS cases were hushed up or denied outright: “He kept getting things mysteriously wrong with him. It was very difficult to talk about. But eventually [AIDS] came to touch everybody somehow.”So shaken by the past, Hollinghurst unsurprisingly chose the 80s to inform both the setting and the tone of “The Line of Beauty”. But, he insists, his next project could go anywhere. He doubts a return to poetry – “There?...
...pack, take one of the beers, and shake it up as hard as you can. Then mix the six beers around so nobody knows which was shaken and put the beers in a circle. Each person picks a beer, places the can on their head, and opens it. If it doesn’t go everywhere, chug the beer. Otherwise, find a towel/friend’s head...
...less magical is Azambourg's Pack chair. It initially looks like a brick but, when shaken, inflates into a full-size chair within five minutes. The shaking activates an emulsion that causes a special polyurethane foam to expand, thus unfolding a 3-D textile made by knitting together two parallel wire-linked fabrics. Several firms are negotiating to produce the chair. Meanwhile, this fall, Herms will launch a series of ultralight suitcases, designed by Azambourg, that are fashioned from a unique mix of foam and leather...