Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never considered that anything like thatwould happen to us," said Gescuk, who had threetackles of his own Saturday. "It really shook usup and made us say that would never happen again...
Maybe the last word should belong to Mavis' mom. When I got back I found her reading Leaving Home. She looked up and shook her head. "That Gary," she said. "Didn't I always say he was above average?" She smiled. Maybe it was the kind you describe in the book, "the smile she has used all her life on people she'd like to slap silly." But I thought it was more genuine than that...
...process is called a "correction," which makes it sound like a painless, orderly affair. But last week's bloodbath on Wall Street was more aptly dubbed an "October massacre." Turmoil and outright fear shook the financial markets as stampeding hordes of investors got caught up in a mood that had been almost absent during the go-go 1980s: bearishness. Over the course of less than two months, in the worst setback since the bull market began five years ago, the value of U.S. stocks has plunged by nearly half a trillion dollars...
...time to leave. We got up, said our goodbyes, and shook out our sleepy legs. We had been initiated into the temple of harsh, greasy reality. We knew the guru's name and what the regulars ordered for breakfast...
...symposium, organized by the philosopher and editor Corliss Lamont '24, paid tribute to the former Adams House resident who chronicled the Russian Revolution in "10 Days That Shook the World...