Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose to go, he smilingly shook my hand, wished me well for the year off I would take before entering Radcliffe, then cautioned, "Watch out for the pigeons...
Danger to Fetuses. Recounting the cyclamate flap that shook the agency in the late 1960s, Verrett notes that as early as 1954 a National Academy of Sciences panel voiced doubts about the safety of the sweetener, which Abbott Laboratories had been authorized to market in 1951. But no further steps were taken by the FDA, and by 1968 a total of 17 million pounds of cyclamate was being consumed annually. Japanese researchers had already reported finding that in some people's bodies cyclamate breaks down in part to cyclohexylamine (CHA), which is known to be dangerous, especially to fetuses...
Karen Phillips, 24, director of Christian education at Trinity United and originally a Nixon fan, had felt betrayed by the Administration when Spiro Agnew fell in disgrace last October. But the President's farewell address shook her. "My heart went out to him," she said. "I really felt he was in the same room talking to me, apologizing to me." She was alone, and she wept before the TV set. Earlier, she had thought that Nixon should be subject to prosecution like any other citizen. After the speech she decided: "I think resigning is enough. I'm willing...
Magical Transformations. Thousands of ecstatic blacks danced through the streets of Mozambique, shouting "Viva Spinola! Viva Spinola!" Out in the bush, where there had been bitter fighting only days before, guerrillas and Portuguese soldiers laid down their arms and shook hands in a spontaneous ceasefire. In the northern province of Tete, a stronghold of the Mozambique Liberation Front [Frelimo] and scene of the war's worst civilian massacres, hatred seemed magically transformed into brotherhood. A rebel leader high on Portugal's "wanted" list exhorted a throng of blacks and whites "to live in harmony." Frelimo guerrillas were feted...
...Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...