Word: shaken
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...price would have been a few disappointed Administration hawks and one or two grumpy op-eds. But something or someone put this bee in his bonnet, and from a standing start, history took off. Thousands died, millions were freed from tyranny (we hope), billions were spent, a region was shaken to its core, alliances ruptured, and the entire world watched...
...Judy Palfrey’s House-wide e-mail opposing the war in Iraq. Sounding oddly like his own accusers, Summers appeared to think that the Palfreys’ strong, reasoned opinion should remain under wraps simply because they were University officials. Many who had supported him earlier were shaken. Before he had merely expressed his own view—why, now, was Summers proving his critics right three months later by telling others not to express theirs? More criticism came...
...disappearance of the government minders had been an omen for the journalists at the Palestine Hotel, the peril came from an unexpected quarter - U.S. tanks deployed on the opposite bank of the Tigris River. Kozyrev called again Tuesday afternoon, Baghdad time, so shaken he was barely able to speak. One of the U.S. tanks across the river fired a shell into the hotel, killing two journalists. Others were wounded and taken to hospital. (The commander of U.S. 3rd Infantry forces inside Baghdad reportedly said the tank fired a single round after U.S. troops came under fire from the hotel...
Saddam Hussein--supposing that was he on the grainy videotape aired last week barely three hours after the opening salvo intended to kill him--hardly seemed himself. Pictured alone in a cramped makeshift studio, the dictator, 65, looked shaken and tired, his face puffy behind big spectacles he rarely wears in public. His words, rambling and repetitive, were read from scribbled notes on a large pad held in a hand more often seen brandishing a rifle. In that context, his characteristic call to Iraqis to "draw your sword" to defeat "little, evil Bush" sounded like the recoil...
Even though Fu has tried to appear outwardly strong, Yang’s disappearance has shaken...