Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Labor Party last week, Neil Kinnock and his wife Glenys took a stroll along Brighton beach for the benefit of photographers. As the cameras clicked, Labor's new standard-bearer tripped and fell into the chilly surf. Picking himself up, with a grin on his freckled face, Kinnock shook the water off his second-best suit and observed that "the damn tide came...
...Fellahs," the legend would have him say, "We've known nothing but defeat and humiliation for awhile. It was 1977 when we last tallied something on the scoreboard. Well, no more." Pontrelli then shook his head and stared solemnly at the ground. "No more. This is going to be the year...the Year of the Point...
...consumer-marketing savvy to propel its brands to the top. Beginning with the purchase of Taylor Wine in New York State, it created a division called the Wine Spectrum and then added the West Coast's Sterling Vineyards and Monterey Vineyard to its basket of wines. Coca-Cola shook up the industry with an advertising campaign boasting that its Taylor California Cellars was preferred to competing brands, which it identified by name. Sales grew smartly, up 17% last year...
...Thursday, Aug. 2, the President showed an active interest in his plans. He asked for some "oldfashioned blackberry juice." Towards evening the President seemed in good health. Mrs. Harding was reading aloud. Without warning a tremor shook his frame and he collapsed. Physicians announced that the President had died of cerebral apoplexy at 7:30 p. m., Pacific time...
...powerhouse on even terms. Then West Point's T began to explode. Quarterback Doug Kenna found a soft spot in the center of Navy's line, sent Plebe-Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard bulling through. When the Midshipmen closed up to plug the gap, Army blockers shook Speedster Glenn Davis loose on the flanks. As they had done all year, Army's swivel-hipped backs went for distance once they got in the clear...