Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MADROD--Pope John Paul ii shook hands with Spain's Socialist premier-designate yesterday but seven hours later took the offensive against his campaign pledges to liberalize the laws against divorce contraception and abortion...
...shot two years ago in December, a significant chunk of the world, briefly united, mourned. The dream, as Lennon himself had sung all the way back in 1970, was irretrievably over. There would be no more Beatles, no more '60s and no more youth for a generation that shook Western society, and then, unsure what to do next, drifted slowly into complacency. And there would be no joy or provocation from a man who had finally come out of seclusion to face a new decade...
...protest the imposition of martial law last December. This time the angry workers arriving for the first shift at the Lenin shipyard wanted action: they called a wildcat strike. Before long, Gate No. 2, scene of so much activity two years earlier as Solidarity grew into a force that shook the Communist bloc, was once again covered with red-and-white national banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer them on, tossing bouquets, cigarettes and food through the iron fence. Emboldened by the crowd, workers renamed...
...said. "Let's go." I only shook my head and turned back to the field...
...marching to the beat of an interstellar drummer when he waddled onto the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, in a surprise appearance after Maestro John Williams conducted the theme from E.T. Williams, 50, who composed the score for E. T. as well as for Star Wars, graciously shook hands with the world's most familiar otherworldly character (animated on this occasion by a midget within). The audience went wild. Who knows, E.T. may now develop an itch for show biz. Cut to the munchkin megastar, reclining by the pool, sporting dark shades, puffing a cigar. A voice over...