Word: shaken
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Tuesday’s horrific tragedy appeared to have shaken everyone at the scene in Back Bay, from onlookers to emergency personnel...
Many police wore black bands on their badges to signify respect for their fallen New York colleagues. Likewise, shaken Boston firefighters mourned the more than 300 missing New York firefighters but said they stood ready to offer any possible assistance...
...deadliest recorded assault on American soil. But the victims of this tragedy are found not only in New York, Washington or Pennsylvania, but across America and throughout the world—those who have friends and family in the cities targeted, and those who have been emotionally and physically shaken by this brutal and unexplained violence. Yesterday’s events were an attack on the security of all Americans, and all Americans share the weight of mourning and the responsibility of assisting those most in need...
...that law-enforcement and security agencies believed the White House and Air Force One were both targets. Bush, the Vice President insisted, should head to a safe military base as soon as possible. White House staff members, Air Force flight attendants and Secret Service agents all were subdued and shaken. One agent sadly reported that the Secret Service field office in New York City, with its 200 agents, was located in the World Trade Center. The plane's TV monitors were tuned in to local news broadcasts; Bush was watching as the second tower collapsed. About 45 minutes after takeoff...
...women's movement, Kathleen says, came an awareness of "strengths in me I hadn't recognized." She is not always the steadiest politician--she is known for mangling the language in a way that seems more genetically Bush than Kennedy, with coinages such as "Hispanish"--but she has shaken off most of the doubts that Maryland's political elite once had about her. And no Kennedy of her generation has been as skillful as Kathleen at enjoying the benefits of being American royalty without being swallowed by them. Kathleen "lobbied the hell out of us" to nail down a prime...