Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intelligent Formosans still fear that China's badly shaken Nationalist leaders may fail or collapse; they nevertheless see a chance of fairly sound government for Formosa in the months ahead...
...Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through 75 of Ohio's 88 counties. He had delivered more than 300 speeches to more than 200,000 persons, laid down his fight against the Democrats' Fair Deal, and shaken thousands of voters' hands...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies, he said, would be a fine thing for Britain...
Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members...