Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noise shook green apples off the trees, moved a frog onto the railroad track, jolted nails out of the shingles in the roofs, and the hens in the poultry yards along the route laid premature eggs in fright." With slight Yankee exaggeration, a newspaper in 1885 described the first field day of the Connecticut Drummers Association in Walling ford, Conn. The fifes and drums echo anew each July along the Connecticut River, where sleepy New England villages like Chester, Deep River and Moodus quietly proclaim a heritage as old as the Republic itself. The occasion is the annual Deep River...
...Adds her husband Bill: "We've made the flag a sacred, spiritual kind of thing." Others are deeply unhappy about the furious ostentation or the denigration they see the flag enduring. One New York hardhat, Edward Polito, looked at the flag decals plastered on his coworkers' helmets and shook his head: "They should show the flag in their heart, not on their helmets." But he marched along with them anyway...
...tough as I could possibly look, and marched, head down, three blocks, almost to Times Square. I was watching the cracks in the sidewalk and swinging quick glances from side to side to make sure that I wasn't about to be knocked off, when suddenly I stopped and shook my head to clear it. Two feet away I saw a grown man, maybe as old as my father and the other members of the Lion's Club. He was sleeping in the gutter. A little water passed under his body to the drain at his feet. He didn...
...Central Co., are among the wealthiest companies in the U.S. (assets: $7 billion). But the railroad is burdened with debt, beset by spiral ing costs, tangled operations, a drop in freight shipments and the $100 million annual drain of unwanted passenger service. As a result, a convulsion last week shook the once-mighty Penn Central and spread deep concern among leaders of business and Government...
...Street, where the Museum of Contemporary Crafts deployed a gigantic air mattress that filled the street from curb to curb. The younger and more active delegates jumped up and down on it, squealing like children. Even some of the protesters joined in. The hushed world of museums was clearly shook...