Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moments later, Bogie slipped the ball to Romero charging in from the left. Romero's shot tore into the right corner of the net, and the Cosmos led, 1-0. Brand shook his head and clenched his fists...
...neat play but Van der Elst leaped high in the air. Chinalgia smiled. The Sounders shook their heads and clenched their fists...
EVEN THE MANY professional journalists in Joe Louis Arena Thursday night were somewhat stirred by the staged celebration of the Reagan-Bush ticket. Media types stood up on the specially-constructed wooden tables as the convention hall shook with paroxysms of Republican passion, watching the masses dancing and the two nominees waving. While none of the journalists cheered--they are, after all, paid to be objective or at least, discerning--several were seen to grin, infected by the spirit...
...favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed a loose shingle on the barn roof and a cobweb in the field. I'd missed those details that added insight to the picture. I realized I lacked the genius to see more than other eyes...
...Margaret, a peak only 13 km (eight miles) northeast of Mount St. Helens. Though scientists emphasized that these seismic disturbances were not hints of an impending eruption, the tremors only added to what might be called a case of tectonic fever on the West Coast. Hundreds of small earthquakes shook the Sierra Nevada in central California, causing landslides and some injuries. At least 100 of the quakes measured above 4.0 on the Richter scale and three reached 6.0 or higher, levels at which there would have been more widespread destruction in populated areas...