Word: shook
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...asked to have their picture taken with this strange dancing man. Thiam obliged, wrapping his arms around the girls. "Dance with me," he said. The girls responded with a nervous shuffle. Thiam tapped his drum. The girls grew braver and produced a saucy two-step. Thiam grinned and shook their hands. So commenced one of the most improbable starts to any World Cup. The party was officially ready to begin...
DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, pioneer rock-'n'-roll tunesmith; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. He wrote songs that helped define the careers of Elvis Presley (Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up), Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire), Peggy Lee (Fever) and James Taylor (Handy Man). A modest man who never met most of the singers made famous by his songs and one of the few black composers of the proto-pop era, Blackwell blended country with rhythm and blues to make music the world still sings...
...DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, prolific songwriter whose compositions have sold more than 185 million records and provided hits for such performers as Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Billy Joel; in Nashville. Among his greatest songs were rock 'n' roll classics like Presley's All Shook Up and Don't Be Cruel, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Peggy Lee's signature Fever. DIED. ANTOINE RIBOUD, 83, founder of Danone, one of the world's largest food manufacturing groups; in Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights...
Alleged pipe bomber Lucas Helder currently being held without bail in Iowa, is described by friends, classmates, family - even the police - as a well-behaved, polite, serious and totally unremarkable college student. "When I talked with him, he shook my hand and called me sir," a Nevada sheriff told the Associated Press...
...then as an even-keeled, defiantly independent jurist; of complications from pneumonia; in Denver. Known for his speed--and record rushing yardage and pay--as a defensive back for the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) and Detroit Lions in the late '30s and early '40s, the Rhodes scholar never shook his nickname, Whizzer, much to his ire. Appointed to the court in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy after serving as Robert Kennedy's deputy Attorney General, White consistently supported civil rights but took conservative stands on some of the era's divisive issues, dissenting in Miranda v. Arizona, which required...