Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some screaming Eagle, Class of 52, had a bullhorn in the back of the bus and was leading the alums in a rousing rendition of "For Boston." The busdriver shook his head painfully...
...lifted his right hand and stuck out his index finger to speak of one side, then raised the left and slowly released its index-finger while speaking of the other side. Then he hit the tips of his fingers together hard, so tremors went right down his arms and shook the table. He never said Catholic or Protestant, Nationalist or Loyalist. He just said "one side" or "the other," and sometimes he leaned over close to say something he didn't want anybody else to hear. When we talked about civil war-- a very real prospect--Tommy forced a bitter...
...side−Major General Taha Maghdoub for the Egyptians and Ambassador-designate to Paris and longtime Prime Ministerial Adviser Mordechai Gazit for the Israelis−signed. After Siilasvuo signed on behalf of the U.N., he asked, "The ceremony is over. Are there any points to be raised?" The delegates shook their heads. Then, as stiffly as they had arrived, each side marched out of the chamber...
...would save New York, it turned out that prayer would not suffice. The banks-notably Chase Manhattan, First National City and Morgan Guaranty Trust-which were being asked for new loans, took another look at the familiar figures in the budget and the familiar figures administering them and sadly shook their heads. With that, the solution so happily announced at the Waldorf collapsed...
...There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle...