Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, Brezhnev sounded like an American campaigner, offering something to everyone. As if in response to the consumer revolts that shook Poland last December, he promised every family a television set and refrigerator by the end of the new five-year plan in 1975. He decreed 5% wage increases for some 90 million salaried workers, premium pay for night work and a hike in pensions. He also introduced a family-assistance plan that will provide government subsidies for families whose monthly per capita income is less than 50 rubles ($55). Carefully avoiding words like poverty, he described such families...
...duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older: "To my knowledge, no jury in history has been sequestered for so long a period or subjected to such an ordeal." He stepped down from the bench and gravely shook each juror's hand...
...time Mrs. Smith, who was either unmoved by Nixon's letter or angered at its timing, offered her barely audible no,-the outcome was clear. The final vote was 51 to 46 against spending any more money to develop the aircraft. Colleagues rushed to congratulate Proxmire. Jackson, too, shook his hand. Magnuson remained seated...
...directing the National Company of Brazil. King's assassination prompted him to ask himself what he could do for his own people back home. The answer: "Pay homage to the thing you do best." With the help of a Ford Foundation grant and the teaching skills of Karel Shook, the American-born ballet master of The Netherlands National Ballet, Mitchell was able to launch the Harlem company in the fall...
...report of a bust at 9:30 p. m. last night proved to be a false alarm provoked by the arrival of three fire engines in front of Peabody Terrace. A Cambridge policeman on the scene, when asked how he felt about a possible police action against the women shook his head and said "Christ...