Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer as facts the unsubstantiated reports of slashed throats? Admittedly, the immediate scene was hectic; the wounded and the dead hostages were rushed out of the prison to morgues or hospitals with great speed. Said one observer: "A doctor would take a look at each one. If he shook his head, that meant the guy was dead, and they pulled the sheet over his head." In many cases, the bleeding was so profuse that it spattered blood on the wounded men's necks...
...immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev...
...Clemente to make the announcement in the same Burbank studio where the slapstick Laugh-In show is taped, knew that the understated declaration had startled the world. With four aides, they skipped off in high spirits to Perino's, a fashionable Los Angeles restaurant, where Nixon gleefully shook hands with bystanders on the sidewalk and his party celebrated inside with a $40 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (1961) during dinner. Happy, too, was Kissinger; at the height of a brilliant career, he enjoys a global spotlight and an influence that most professors only read about in their libraries...
Gunnar Myrdal, Sc.D., Swedish economist and social analyst. If Paul Bunyan had been a scholar, he would have been like you: ranging the globe, picking problems too big and too frightening for anyone else to tackle, and writing books that shook the world...
...there were in my lock-up, perhaps ten "fellow travellers" who were over forty years old. They were all wonderful, particularly a gray-haired woman who stood across form me smiling as we were being released, and shook her head. "I'm sorry, in a way, that this is over," she said. "You are all so right ... Right On," And then she clenched her fist and said that she would see us all in jail the next...