Word: shaken
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...Promising two nubile pre-frosh he would “show them a good time” Saturday night, Harold G. Penninger ’02 instead got staggeringly high and left the pair in a dark, sweaty hellhole. The girls escaped the Owl basement shaken, unhurt and planning to attend Yale...
...peaceful marchers, a frustrated Times vacillates schizophrenically between two stories—impending violence and summer of love—never quite integrating the narratives. The fact of Florence is that its eye-liner wielding peaceniks were wielding cobble-stones and petrol-bombs in Genoa. Since Genoa, they have shaken Italy’s government with two general strikes and the continuing occupation of factories by some 70,000 “redundant” Fiat workers. Yet in Florence they took to the streets with bands and banners, dancing along the four-mile march, singing that another world...
...following week was the Ivy opener against Brown and Rose—having shaken off the shot to the head—accepted the fact that he could learn to play with ruptured discs...
...Bush was not so much historic as shaped by history, created out of the mold of an extraordinary election and given form by the terrorist attacks of September 2001. Despite broad support for his campaign against al-Qaeda, Bush, in the eyes of his detractors, has never fully shaken his image as a fortunate son whose approval ratings would eventually collapse under the weight of a sagging economy. Democrats figured that would be enough to at least hold their ground, but last week Bush's appeal blindsided them. After securing control of both houses of Congress and then winning unanimous...
...that when people on Sunday turned on their radios and heard that the hostage death toll was actually 117, and that almost all had died from gas poisoning and that the government was still refusing to say what type of gas it had used, people may have been shaken. The Russian media is gently raising the question of whether it had to be done this way, and whether the authorities were correct in withholding information about the gas. But it's too early to tell how this will play...