Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event, he said, "could shake the world," but India's plan is to take a calm approach without giving in. For him, he added, this is "one of those peak events of history when the plunge has to be taken in some direction...
...woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...phone rings for more than advice: many schools, including Pitt, Indiana and Baylor, have tried to draw him into major-college coaching. Michigan-born Dave Nelson learned his football with Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan powerhouses (one teammate: Forest Evashevski), but no one has been able to shake him loose from Delaware. "I like the small-college atmosphere," he says. "It's a good place to raise a family...
Rarely has so much been at shake in a Harvard-Yale contest. The desire for victory is always strong in The Game, and the Bulldogs will be out to avenge last year's 1-0 defeat at the hands of the varsity. For the senior-studded Harvard eleven, a win today would be a fitting climax to a surprisingly successful season...
...everything, even the most unsurprisable wore the slightly dazed air of men who have just heard a mallard endorse a shotgun. After years of unwavering hostility to Charles de Gaulle, French Communists abruptly abandoned their denunciations of his Algerian policy and made it known that they were eager to shake his hand...