Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school did its best to shake up our literary notions. My entire ninth grade year was devoted to studying works by ethnic writers: Lawrence Yep's Child of the Owl, Chaim Potok's My Name is Ascher Lev and Richard Wright's Native Son. But one year in the span of 18 is not saying a whole...
...founder of his own ism, she grew up in a small town, the daughter of a grocer and the inheritor of strong, traditional values. She saw nothing but infamy in what she regarded as socialism's sapping her country's strength. She determined to give enervated Britain a good shake and force it to become an economic and political world power once again. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, she embarked on policies that would encourage self-reliance and reward hard work. Her vision, she said, was "of a free, classless, open Britain...
...alliance against Saddam. The inscriptions are quickly erased, but government authorities know that all the whitewash in the world cannot obliterate the sentiment they express. "To be anti-U.S. and pro-Arab nationalism is what people in Syria have been groomed for, and it's very difficult to shake off," says a Western diplomat in Damascus. "This feeling is all of the government's making, and now it doesn't serve their purposes...
With the oxygen going out of the U.S. economy and Japanese collectors scared by the descent of their stock index, the fall sales at Sotheby's and Christie's are jolted by a major shake-out in the art market. Top-quality works still command good prices, but the overhyped contemporary field suffers a massacre, with many offerings going unsold. Moreover, the decline casts new doubts on the competitive tactics of the auction houses...
...first. But it didn't take long for a couple of sergeants to notice I was working very hard even if they didn't like me." By the mid-1980s, Watson had become a protege of Lee Brown, the city's first black police chief, imported from Atlanta to shake up a scandal-scarred, good-ole-boy department. As one of Brown's "kamikaze kids," Watson radiated an I'm-brighter-than-you-a re aggressiveness with comments like "that's a spurious argument." But as assistant chief Tom Koby, a reformist ally, puts it, "Betsy's a highflyer...