Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After miserable team performances against Northeastern and Princeton, Weiland shook up the team. Senior defenseman and three-year veteran Terry Flaman was benched by the move...
After the final vote, the moderates shook Adelbert Gymnasium, scene of the conference, with a wild five-minute victory celebration. The Independent Front countered the moderates' chant of "Bring the Troops HomeNow!" with cries of "Bullshit! Bullshit!" The convention was uncontrollable for several minutes. Delegates attempted to seize the microphones, and fist-fights erupted in different parts of the room. Dan Siegel, the former Berkeley student body president who chaired Sunday's session, eventually brought the meeting back to order...
...lady" was a chain that Jane had to drag around all through school. The very name tapes on her clothes read "Lady Fonda," and she was referred to at home as "Lady Jayne." It was not until the Fondas moved east for Mr. Roberts that Jane shook off the adult humor. Her family had preceded the Hay wards to Greenwich, Conn., and Brooke Hayward noisily greeted her old classmate: "Lady Jayne!" "My name is Jane," came the icy reply. "J-A-N-E." Peter chose his own way of self-expression. "I wrote I HATE THE EAST on the walls...
...last Dec. 29, Goines had had enough, as he told an Indianapolis court last week. He had to give refunds to two customers who lost their money to the device, then it took Goines' own 15?. "I shook that machine," Goines testified. "Then I walked over to the desk drawer, got my .22-cal. revolver, and I went over and shot the machine dead! After I fired the shot, I looked at that machine and I said, That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined...
...Since ambassadors do not normally attack fellow countrymen before foreign audiences, the British press sarcastically labeled the speech a "surprising public debut." To this sort of criticism, Annenberg has replied: "I'm used to swimming upstream." More recently, at a gathering held by the English-Speaking Union, he shook hands stiffly in the reception line but neglected to give a talk or mix with guests...