Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration among business leaders is particularly dangerous because it gives them one more reason for holding back on the expansion programs that are necessary to keep production I growing and bring down unemployment. And businessmen already have plenty of cause for such caution. The deep recession of 1973-75 shook their faith that the economy would keep rising, with only minor setbacks; the double-digit inflation of 1974 made them doubt that they could realistically estimate future costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder whether they could find...
...plane finally arrived, and they sat for 90 minutes wondering if they were going to make it. It was one of those planes with the For Sale sign still taped to one of the wings. It shook upon take-off. It bounced upon landing. It didn't matter, though, because while they made it to Ithaca, they didn't score...
...Cornell beat us, 9-3, on October 9 in a heavy rain that turned the Harvard stadium field into a quagmire. We called it a fluke and we shook it off, but they beat us nevertheless--we didn't do the job. This year, Cornell, led by new coach Bob Blackman, the famous ogre from Dartmouth, will be looking to thump us once again. But this time we'll be ready...
...Stokowski been a full-time politician, instead of the most political of maestros, he would have been a sitting duck for the cartoonists. As it was, detractors mocked his phony accent and snickered when he shook hands with Mickey Mouse in Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940). Yet he was one of the 20th century's handful of true geniuses. He could draw from an orchestra-almost any orchestra-sounds that shimmered gloriously...
...watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele and introduced him to a delighted David. Was Kissinger a Cosmos rooter? Said he: "If you know anything about the passions aroused by soccer, you'd know no professional diplomat would ever admit what his favorite team was. It would take more courage...