Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rationally observe that my future draft status is no shakier than it was on Monday afternoon. I can calmly expound on the illusory nature of the differences between the old and new systems. I can playfully belt my roommate, who drew =336, or the guy upstairs, who ranks =366 (for real...
...Allies. The planned withdrawal is as much due to Britain's strict austerity drive-initiated a year ago-as it is to De Gaulle. The British are having a hard time trying to wipe out their foreign-trade deficit and shore up the pound, which last week was shakier than it has been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about $168 million...
...least one major objective: forcing the resignation of Lleras Restrepo as the Front's presidential candidate in 1966. "I am the victim of an intense and obstinate propaganda campaign to destroy the country's institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour rampage in Bogotá, slinging stones and Molotov cocktails, breaking windows in a U.S.-Colombian cultural center, and taking over two radio stations. When police finally restored order, more than...
...world's best young violinists had entered the 10th Queen Elisabeth, the most glamorous of all the music competitions. The stiff preliminaries had winnowed the competitors down to twelve-including four Russians and four Americans. But in the finals, the Russians were the masters of the younger and shakier Americans, whose main virtue was the exuberant individualism of their playing. When the prizes were announced, the Russians took first, second, fourth and ninth; the Americans placed third, fifth, eleventh and twelfth...
...like the man, reasoned and vocal. Harvard men who remember his Godkin Lectures in 1957 will sense the depth of England's loss. The entire process of two-party government in that country has suddenly become immeasureably more difficult and the future even more clouded. The Western community is shakier and weaker this week...