Word: unshaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere...
Proclaiming her unshaken belief that the bones actually were those of the last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...
...skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
Last week, 60-year-old Ethel Underwood was giving a tea when two men forced their way into the Seoul house, one at the front door and one at the back. Outwardly unshaken by the invasion, Mrs. Underwood left her guests and confronted one of the men in the foyer. As she was trying to persuade him to leave the house, his accomplice raised a sawed-off U.S. Army carbine and fired. Mrs. Underwood's guests found her lying in the foyer, a bullet through her abdomen. "I want to see my husband," she said...
...selfcriticism; it is the transition from wishfulness to wisdom, from innocence to maturity . . . In Plato's words, the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good fortune...