Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defaulted on $2.25 billion worth of bonds. The consortium of 23 electric companies, which had postponed or canceled construction of four of its five proposed nuclear power plants, had sold the securities to help finance two of the facilities. The WPPSS default, the biggest municipal bond failure in history, shook financial markets and raised questions about the ability of utilities to manage nuclear plant construction...
...courage of Pope John Paul II is clearly a source of admiration and inspiration. It should be remembered, though, that the same hands that embraced the repentant Mehmet Ali Agca also shook the hand of Yasser Arafat, an unrepentant, notorious murderer. For totally different reasons, both meetings cause deep astonishment and surprise...
...luggage office, shattering windows, carving out a crater three feet wide, and leaving two dead and 34 injured. Together with two recent explosions in fashionable Parisian restaurants, both blasts were apparently designed to protest the French role in the Middle East quagmire. Last week, as the entire country shook from the reverberations, several alarms were sounded, railway stations were evacuated, and riot policemen began patrolling high-speed trains...
...What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me," the Pope said as he emerged from the cell. "I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned, and who has my complete trust." As John Paul rose to leave, the two men shook hands. The Pope gave Agca, who will turn 26 next week, a small gift in a white box, a rosary in silver and mother-of-pearl. The Pope walked out. Agca was left standing alone, and the camera recorded a sudden look of uncertainty on his face. Perhaps...
...SALT I pact and in a joint communiqué pledged to refrain from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly." The high point of détente, in a literal sense, came in 1975, when Soviet and American spacemen linked up and shook hands 140 miles above the globe during a joint space mission. Meanwhile, troubles back on earth threatened to end the era of good feeling...