Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first explosion occurred shortly before dawn last week at an abortion clinic in Wheaton, Md. Eleven minutes later, a second bomb blast shook a Planned Parenthood office one mile away, in Rockville. No one was hurt, but the eleven-year-old abortion clinic was destroyed, and the Planned Parenthood office sustained an estimated $50,000 in damages...
Antonia Moreno was getting her husband Rafael, a warehouse janitor, off to work. "The earth shook and we heard thunder," she recalled. "We could see flames all over the sky and a lot of black smoke." The couple fled with two of their children (two others were spending the night with their grandmother). They dashed out of their tin-roofed, corrugated-cardboard hillside house and began running. They saw their neighbors running too, many in their nightshirts or underwear. "Some people were half-naked, and they burned their feet because the ground was so hot," Antonia Moreno said. "Nobody...
...pretty strong feelings for John, who soon felt compelled to cut the arrangement short. As Cheever later told his daughter, his love for his brother was the most complicated and powerful in his life: "When it became apparent that it was an ungainly closeness, I packed my bag and shook his hand and left." But the relationship triggered Cheever's emotional obstinacy, his unwillingness to let people in close, and foreshadowed his omnivorous sexual appetite; falling romantically for a sibling helped form Cheever's character...
TIME correspondents accompanied each of the four major candidates as they gave their last speeches and shook their last few hundred hands. Two White House correspondents covered Ronald Reagan's final forays: Douglas Brew traveled with the President on a five-day, 16-city swing, and Laurence Barrett was there for the huge G.O.P. wrap-up rally in San Diego...
...night, NBC's John Chancellor was both candid and prescient: "In my judgment, the President got very tired at the end. He seemed quite disorganized in his closing remarks." The public felt that way too about the first debate. The widespread distress at Reagan's lackluster performance shook the press from its initial timid opinion that Mondale had won a narrow victory on "the debating points...