Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising price has already forced the oil-importing developing nations to pile up a staggering $300 billion in foreign debts, and some Third World countries are close to bankruptcy. A few big defaults could severely shake the international banking system. As poignant testimony to the squeeze on all the developing countries, Sri Lanka is now begging for mercy from the OPEC price pinch. In a government-sponsored petition that President Junius Jayawardene hopes will be signed by 3 million of his nation's 14.5 million citizens, the island republic pleads plaintively that the cartel grant special concessionary prices...
...Gosh, could you imagine if he turned his shoulders to shake your hand?" someone said. "He'd blot...
...scarcely allowed to become the buffo scalawag that Mozart and Da Ponte had in mind. Edda Moser as Donna Anna, Teresa Berganza as Zerlina, Kenneth Riegel as Don Ottavio, all throw themselves into their roles with intensity, but only the exotic Kiri Te Kanawa, as Donna Elvira, manages to shake off some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed the spirit of the work. Here the music is not as much help as it might be, since Lorin Maazel conducts it with such grim, unrelenting...
...says Star Tailback Eric Ellington. "We don't think of him as a coach but as a father." At the end of each season, Moeller's football father says farewell in an emotional ceremony that has become traditional. After the final practice, the seniors line up to shake hands with the underclassmen and assistant coaches. This year, as always, Faust stood at the end of the line. He embraced each player, and when the ceremony was over, the teary-eyed seniors nodded their approval of Assistant Coach Bill Clark's assertion: "The greatest team you will ever...
...final period, Felipe, a sophomore defenseman, circled in his own zone with the puck, minding his own business. And then came right winger Olson, hacking away, sneering, annoying, nagging, stealing the puck, scoring, getting mobbed by teammates. In that order. Twice (the second time shorthanded). Felipe could only shake his head...