Word: shook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bare room. "Tell me to stop when you think I'm too close." He moved forward a pace. "Here?" Another step. "Here?" The subject, an inmate of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost as if he felt himself inside an invisible circle into which no one, not even an unthreatening psychiatrist, could safely intrude...
First, Penn whipped the fencing team, 19-8. Harvard is not a fencing power, but neither is Penn, and the score was very unacceptable. Coach Edo Marion just shook his head. "It was very disappointing and unexpected," he said. "Even the Penn coach came up to me afterwards and said he couldn't believe the score was so lopsided," Marion added. It was the first time that season that Harvard had lost all three weapons...
Over the ensuing weekend things quieted down. But on Monday President Quincy called in prominent members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes. In unequivocal terms with a voice that shook in rage, he told the students that it was the duty of the Faculty and the determination of the Corporation to punish those students who had destroyed and trespassed on University property. If President Quincy had meant to knock the wind out of the disturbances, his statement had the opposite effect...
...each class called a meeting in open defiance of President Quincy. A vote for a general strike and open disruption of the University was taken. The motion shook the passions of the students, as it resolved: "a black flag [of rebellion] be raised before tomorrow morning on some of the college buildings--that the whole college dance around the rebellion tree tomorrow morning--that no prayers or recitations be attended until these grievances be redressed." The motion was carried in the Junior and Freshman Class meetings, but before the meetings were dismissed word had been passed down throughout the seniors...
What to do? We didn't know. So we just kept walking toward those Germans and soon found ourselves "fraternizing with the enemy." They appeared to be ordinary guys like us. We reached across the barbed-wire roadblock and shook hands with them. That was bout the only sensible thing I did during World...