Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought he had been shot. Two years ago, when he was to appear with Reagan at a Chrysler factory in St. Louis, a White House limousine met Iacocca at the airport. Arriving at the plant, he discovered the door could not be opened from the inside, and it shook him a bit. "What if the car caught on fire?" he asked the Secret Service agent who let him out. For days afterward, he talked about that scary sealed presidential limo...
...books by fellow best-selling Italian Americans--Mario Puzo's The Sicilian and Leo Buscaglia's Loving Each Other. But in addition to doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, his main hobby seems to be hypochondria. After learning of an acquaintance's death not long ago, he shook his head and said gravely, "I've got to start guarding my health." In fact his health is under pretty tight security already. Among other medicinal regimens, he doses himself every night with Metamucil, a fiber laxative. He is a confessed fiber zealot. "I've probably saved 500 lives by spreading...
...useful on such occasions to pick up John Reed's enthusiastic description of Lenin in Ten Days That Shook the World: "Loved and revered as perhaps few leaders in history have been . . . a leader purely by virtue of intellect; colorless, humorless, uncompromising and detached, without picturesque idiosyncrasies--but with the power of explaining profound ideas in simple terms." Then, having read that, to pick up Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory, in which the author, having fled the Soviet revolution, discusses the "bestial terror that had been sanctioned by Lenin --the torture- house, the blood-bespattered wall." Reed saw what...
Gorbachev also shook the big stick. During a meeting with Pakistan's President Zia ul-Haq, in Moscow for the funeral, the General Secretary issued a thinly veiled warning that the U.S.S.R. might actively foment trouble inside Pakistan if its government continues to cooperate with the U.S. in supporting the insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan. Reporting on the meeting, the Soviet news agency TASS said that "aggressive actions" against Afghanistan "cannot but affect in the most negative way Soviet-Pakistani relations...
...biggest fear is that Sauk Centre will become part of a kind of credit dust bowl. Probably 60% of the people earn a living from agriculture: farming, feedlots, machinery, the Kraft cheese plant in nearby Melrose. Bruce Buchanan, who runs a food market on Main Street, shook out the dice to see who would pay the bill for the 10:30 a.m. coffee crowd and said of the President's State of the Union address: "Oh, he's great. When he gets done, we'll have the rich and the poor. But he's great." Even a visitor primed...