Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler emerges now and then from the void and says nothing. He will not comment on the health of Mao, the tone of the meeting, even how long the two shook hands. It remains one of the most remarkable such meetings on record. Richard Nixon has bragged before about the number of hours he has spent with heads of state. This time he flew 11,510 miles and so far he has had one hour with the top guy. That boils down to half an hour of talk. Is that enough to start this historic chain...
YUGOSLAV Airlines' Flight 367 from Stockholm to Belgrade had just passed over the northern border of Czechoslovakia last week when an explosion shook the plane. The bomb-stricken DC-9 fell from the skies and crashed near the Bohemian town of Česká Kamenice, killing all but one of the 28 people aboard. A few hours later, another bomb went off on the Ljubljana-to-Belgrade express outside Zagreb, injuring six passengers...
...love, unhh, he was all shook...
...main factor tempering brokers' enthusiasm is a gnawing concern about increasing Government control of the market. The 1970 bear-market debacle swept more than 100 brokerage firms into merger or bankruptcy and badly shook the faith of the investing public. Since then, the effectiveness of the industry's all but autonomous self-regulating agencies -the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers-has been sharply questioned...
...beginning to fall, General Niazi and Lieut. General Jagjit Singh Aurora, commander of India's forces in the East, signed the formal surrender of the Pakistani army on the grassy lawn of Dacca's Race Course. Niazi handed over his revolver to Aurora, and the two men shook hands. Then, as the Pakistani commander was driven away in a Jeep, Aurora was lifted onto the shoulders of the cheering crowd...