Word: shaken
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Democrats, understandably, have been shaken and disheartened by the results. But rather than accept the country’s verdict and move on, many have turned their energies toward trying, once again, to de-legitimize President Bush’s victory. Unlike in 2000, they cannot use voting numbers to do so. After all, it would be difficult to deny the mandate of Bush’s 51 percent victory while their own political hero, Bill Clinton, only won his two presidential bids with 43 and 49 percent of the vote, respectively...
...Donald E. Woznick held a sign reading, “Don’t forget to vote for Bush/Cheney. Kerry who? He doesn’t show support for his own state.” He said he has gotten a good reaction from the Kerry supporters and has shaken hands with several of them...
...This is the question of SW2:AOTC, George Lucas’s powerfully cautionary political treatise. Within the mythos of the Star Wars universe, Lucas imagines a world of chaos and political upheaval, that could be, yes, similar to the world of today. SW2:AOTC will leave you shaken, particularly due to the parallels it finds between contemporary American politics and the ever-encroaching designs of the super-evil, ultra-bad and mega-nasty imperialistic Sith warlords, who possess an uncanny command of the Dark Side. The relationship to nuclear proliferation that Lucas draws in this respect is stunningly insightful...
...deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing the gifts of civilization?courts of law, hygiene, tar roads?bequeathed to them by their European overlords and crawling back into tribal ritual, sham spirituality and chaos. He did this for more than...
...fact, so obviously harmless that I have been shaken awake while crossing back into Manhattan from Brooklyn in the wee morning hours only to be asked for the time, despite the presence of several other riders in my car. A seasoned late-night passenger, I thought that perhaps I had mastered the technique of making myself appear more imposing than I really am by curling up into a fetal position and pulling the hood of my jacket over my head, thereby hiding my lanky frame and boyish face while I slept. Yet beneath the heavy green fabric of my Abercrombie...