Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impulsively averting some vicarious blow. When the families cried out, or held their heads in their hands, or put their arms around one another, or stared in mute terror, the same people who'd noticed how nervous Rather looked, how worn-out, how disgusted, how much his hands shook, the same people cursed him, and called him an S.O.B., and said that the networks were heartless, and vicious, and lacking in ethics, and wanting of propriety...
...Macrae's untimely death shook the school," Bussey Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson said yesterday. "Anticipation of [Thiemann's] arrival has energized the faculty...
Blair, apparently not rattled by the plastic Pepsi bottles--each containing a handful of popcorn kernels--that the 5000 fans shook throughout the game, recorded 27 saves while surrendering only a pair of second period goals to lead the Crimson...
...events that inspired Pennzoil's suit began on Jan. 1, 1984, when Pennzoil's Liedtke and Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty shook hands on a merger. Pennzoil agreed to pay $5.4 billion, or $110 a share, to buy 43% of Getty. The remaining 57% was to stay in Getty family hands. The two companies announced the merger to the press, signed a memorandum of agreement, even had a champagne toast. But before the paper work was completed, Texaco Chairman John McKinley approached Getty with an offer worth $10.2 billion, or $125 a share, for the entire company...
John and Joe shook their heads emphatically. What Elliott said wasn't true, John said, unless you "use the term girlfriend very loosely...