Word: shaken
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...cause. You hear it in his rhetoric: Americans are "a people of faith;" Osama bin Laden is the "evil one;" "freedom and fear are at war," and "God is not neutral between them." It is no small matter that on that very bad night in September, when a shaken nation beheld an evil it supposed could not exist, this president chose to quote a psalm invoking God’s protection of the righteous. Yea, though we walked through the valley of the shadow of death, we would fear no evil...
...removing cases of terrorism from the federal courts, the United States risks losing an opportunity to send a message to the world much like the one sent by the Nuremberg trial—that our nation’s commitment to impartial and transparent justice will not be shaken by even the most inhuman atrocities...
...exactly going to be a post-apocalyptic wasteland out there on the roads and in the airports and terminals. Plenty of people shaken up by the disasters of the past few months are more eager to be with their friends and family than ever, and new world or not, the busiest holiday season of the year will still be pretty busy - the AAA's 34.6 million guesstimate would be a 6 percent decline from last year. Bad but not disastrous...
...None of them looked up as we passed by. Mohibullah was driving up to 80 miles an hour on a narrow street through the town. And his constant honking to clear the road was actually attracting everyone's attention. I was also shaken. He was moving street to street searching for a safe passage out of town, and it appeared gunmen were everywhere - on foot, on Toyota pickups...
Twenty-five thousand people came—from the mountains, the prairies and across oceans white with foam—to wake up before dawn in the legendary city that never sleeps. And under the glowing canopy of a cloudless sky, having shaken off the chills of a perfect autumn morning, we swept across the starting line of the marathon in a sea of adrenaline. As we crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge the glistening harbor opened before us, with the familiar figure of Lady Liberty, torch uplifted, presiding over that famous gateway of opportunity. And yet to thousands who looked...