Word: shook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frightful thought shook me! What if the Crimson had been buried in the rubble of Dillon Field House this summer. And no one had seen...
...first quake struck shortly before dawn, a strong, 6.3 nimbler that shook Mexico City a bit and unsettled the populace but inflicted no major damage. The really big quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for promulgating harsh anti-Catholic laws. John Paul had chosen to make this, his first international journey, to open a critical meeting of bishops from the length of Latin America that will provide the first major look at the policies of his fledgling papacy...
June 11, 1973. Today I graduated from Harvard University. As my parents watched with pride, Prof. Alan Heimert, Master of Eliot House, presented my diploma and shook my hand, acknowledging my existence for the first time in three years. Amazing what the proper audience can do. If the athlete thinks that graduation means the end of games, wait until he tries to get a job on the outside. That's where the real games begin...
...agreed that this was an "historic," "fascinating" occasion. Some even called it unexpected; they never dreamed normalization would occur in their lifetimes. Members of the Chinese delegation seemed to marvel even more; they certainly couldn't have looked any happier. Deputy Liaison Chief Han Hsu beamed as he shook hands in the reception line while the proudest-looking man had to be Liaison Chief Chai. He looked especially pleased when someone pointed to one of the three buttons pinned to his suit. In Coca-Cola script it read "things go better with science...
...yesterday, after sitting through an earthquake that shook Santa Monica Monday at 4.6 on the Richter scale, Harvard was ready to close the trip and come home...