Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initial shooting lasted for five minutes. After a brief lull, there came sporadic bursts of gunfire from inside the Savoy, then the long staccato of a Kalashnikov. It was answered by the wind-sucking thump of an Israeli bazooka fired from the beach 100 yds. away. Suddenly the building shook with a tremendous explosion as a bomb rigged by the terrorists went off. The hotel's third and fourth floors collapsed in rubble. The attack was over...
...trip home, a modernization program for barracks will be stepped up, and the promotion system will be reformed to allow young officers to rise faster in rank. "The decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...
...relationship is now amazingly warm and relaxed). Cher was having a manicure-a three-hour procedure in which an expert executes intricate tricolor designs on the star's fingernails. "See, Cher, that's you! You got your dream and now you're done with it." Cher shook her head. "You don't understand. I felt security in this great, strong house. But now, man, I got the house inside here." And with her free hand she pointed to her guts...
...mouth-breathing of people sleeping and feels the eyes in the dark of the sleeping hall and can't make love: his daughter, who has adapted to her crowded world like a serene snowflake in a blizzard, whom he cannot understand; his father, being twisted and contorted and shook to death by Parkinson's disease; his mother, who believed that humanity was perfectible and gave herself to a life of committees for improvement, and cried when she came home every day--the face she was obliged to make at human truth...
...Reyes shook his head when he talked about the Soc Stud seniors on Wednesday. "It makes me feel like I'm the last"--an embarrassed pause--"of a breed." And then he laughed...