Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quake was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nev., 250 miles to the northeast. It knocked dishes off shelves in the Victor Valley, 70 miles to the northeast, and shook the ground in El Cajon, in San Diego County to the south...
...junior QB gave the Crimson a scare in the fourth quarter when he came up from a hard hit limping a little. "He got kicked a little bit on that play," Harvard Coach Joe Restic said, "but he shook it off quickly...
...died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations of Tin Pan Alley...
When Vanunu's trial for treason and espionage began last week, officials tried to shut him up. He arrived at court each day in a van with blacked-out windows and wore a visored motorcycle helmet as he was hustled into a boarded- up courtroom. When he shook off the headgear despite handcuffs, sirens drowned out his shouting. Straps were then added to the helmet to keep it in place. Vanunu will probably not suffer this indignity for long. He is expected to be convicted soon and sentenced to life in prison...
...family tree shook out impoverished European aristocrats. His iron-willed mother told him, "With a tennis racquet and a dinner jacket, you'll be able to go anywhere in life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits...