Word: shaken
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...hundreds of men succumbed to disease. Zheng He, too, died on his final, seventh voyage and was buried at sea. Ma Huan, a translator on several of Zheng He's expeditions, recalls how Saint Elmo's fire once blazed atop the mast of the treasure ship, prompting a shaken Zheng He to offer more lavish sacrifices to Tianfei...
...salesman and a psychiatrist, but her future outings will include a look at legalizing marijuana and a fling at black-radical-chic party giving ? la Leonard Bernstein. In one episode not yet okayed by the network, she even gets pregnant and decides to seek an abortion, while her shaken husband looks into the vasectomy market...
...Seillière's destiny took a sudden turn in 1978: the family holding company Marine-Wendel, shaken by the collapse of the steel industry, turned to him to restore its shattered fortunes. Seillière transformed the creaky industrial artifact into a modern conglomerate with interests ranging from information technology and Internet services to energy, real estate and auto parts. In less than 25 years, he multiplied the company's worth 90-fold to some $1.25 billion...
...private sector won't be disdained. Blair has said that contractors will take on more parts of the health service, schools and post office. The old bureaucracies will be shaken up in other ways, to reduce "the strong culture of central direction in Whitehall." New elected mayors will raise the public's expectations about local services and shift its gaze away from Westminster. The powerful civil service will be overhauled to give less prominence to mandarins who devise policy and more to managers who can implement it. "Governments are often appalling on creativity," Mulgan says. Well, not always...
...teams was evident. Carlin Wing, Katie Gregory, Kristin Wadwha and Ella Witcher all won their individual matches, thriving under highly emotional and competitive conditions. Although the sold-out crowd at the Murr Center's Barnaby Courts would go home disappointed that day, the Crimson's confidence was not shaken...