Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would enter at least four primaries in quest of the Democratic nomination. She began her campaign on a characteristically scrappy note: "Other kinds of people can steer the ship of state besides white men. Regardless of the outcome, they will have to remember that a little 100-Ib. woman shook things...
Dayan also told Teveth a tale out of school. In September 1956, on his way to Paris to confer with the French on plans for that year's invasion of Egypt, Dayan alighted from a French bomber at Bizerte. As the base commander shook hands with Dayan, his Gallic glance fell on a pair of female legs groping helplessly from the underside of the plane for a ladder that was not yet there. "We choose secretaries with prettier legs than those," cracked the Frenchman. Moments later Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, emerged from the plane...
Controversy over the Jackson resolution was bitter. A young Quaker named Ross Flanagan announced that he, as a non-violent person, could not support the statement. His was a difficult announcement to make, and his voice shook. These reservations provoked countering statements of support for the resolution with varying degrees of outrage and bitterness. The chairman asked Phil Lawson to go with several others to prepare a resolution which might be generally acceptable, and to then deliver it to the assembly. In the confusion in the back of the room, Phil, seething, told supporters, "I don't intend to bring...
...Truth. Till this day, Truth stands as the epitome of the hard rock album. Featuring Rod Steward (Beck's personal discovery) on vocals, Truth influenced just about every hard rock album that followed it, including Led Zeppelin I. A combination of classic blues ("I Ain't Superstitious" and "You Shook Me") given a new breath of life, and innovative rock ("Shapes of Things" and "Beck's Bolero"), Truth was Beck at his best...
Later in 1968, Truth was followed up with Beck-Ola, a collection of re-worked rock and roll songs. Although the album did have its bright moments (most notably two old Elvis Presley songs, "Jailhouse Rock" and "All Shook Up"), it was largely a musical and commercial failure...