Word: shaken
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...fighting vehicle, blowing off its lid and killing a young medic who, though based in the rear, had volunteered to enter the fighting fray. A few feet forward, the toll would have been worse, killing the Bradley commander and his gunner. "This is a war of inches," says a shaken U.S. officer...
Senior wideout Rodney Byrnes made an even earlier exit during the game’s third series after a crushing collision with junior cornerback Keith Howell left him stunned on the field. Byrnes was shaken up and sat with ice bags wrapped around his neck, but received only a bandage on his chin...
...Customers using this phone simply place a call as normal, provided they have access to a wi-fi zone. This lets them do an end run around the mobile network. The lines between Internet service and phone service are blurring, and just as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has shaken up the fixed-line phone business, it is now poised to disrupt the mobile business. At stake is a slice of the $550 billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing...
...gimmicky premise. To be sure, it contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...
...shock waves from Beslan are still felt far beyond the town. Many Russians were profoundly shaken by the television footage of dead and terribly injured children. And the Kremlin's failure to protect its people was another blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough, take-charge leader. For Stanislav Kesayev, deputy speaker of the North Ossetian regional parliament and a critic of the Kremlin's handling of Beslan, the chaos surrounding the school seizure and the botched rescue attempt is symptomatic of the way Russian officials treat ordinary people as "cattle." "I teach law," says Kesayev...