Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house...
After a sluggish start, dropping races to Princeton, Dartmouth and several Western crews at the San Diego Crew Classic early in the season, the heavies blasted by Yale and Brown in their final two races. These victories shook up the Eastern rankings and moved Radcliffe of three notches from seventh to third...
...historic moment, although it was hard to tell from the behavior of those involved. House Democrats cheered and mockingly waved their handkerchiefs as their Republican colleagues paraded up the center aisle of the chamber and out the door. When the G.O.P. members passed by, Democrats laughed and shook their hands...
During his two-day stay, White behaved much as politicians will in media- intensive situations: he shook hands with the men, posed for pictures, gave speeches and signed autographs. He gave a cattle brand in the shape of Texas to Colonel Roy Kimerling, commander of the joint task force participating in the games. Surrounded by ten Army guards, White even inspected a municipal project, a new well dug by his Guardsmen...
...Society work, or at least work better than it ultimately did, with program after program collapsing under the burden of unfocused - goals, unbridled spending and unbelievable bureaucratic bloat. He might have been succeeded by, say, Robert Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along the lines drawn years ago between hawk and dove, Johnson and Kennedy. Says George McGovern, who ran on an antiwar platform in the 1972 presidential election and was buried...