Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concurrent Dangers. The international problems awaiting Nixon range from reform of the world monetary system, shaken three times in the past year, to the concurrent dangers of Balkanization and military hegemony in Africa. And most demand quick attention. Among them...
...party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership was trying to steamroller them, leftist rank-and-file delegates hurled their badges at the shaken leaders and, amid shouts of "Farce!" and "Fakers!" stormed the platform, fists swinging...
...households without television [Nov. 8] reminded me of my ninth-grade English class. The teacher, who was loud in her disapproval of television and proud that she did not own one, gave my class the assignment of writing an original short story. The world of literature was not shaken by the results. However, a handful of ingenious students, well aware of the fact that Miss Y. did not watch television, proceeded to paraphrase recent Alfred Hitchcock programs. Needless to say, they received A's and flowery praises for their original ideas, organized plots and exciting conclusions. BARBARA J. HERMAN...
Officially as detached about NATO as ever, the French promised nothing. But Charles de Gaulle was shaken by the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the French have shown some signs of cooperation-where their own interests are clearly at stake. Some French commanders quietly continue to participate in infantry exercises with NATO forces in West Germany. French ships openly joined some 50 other vessels of the U.S., Britain, Italy and Greece in the alliance's "Operation Eden Apple" naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean last week...
...senior veteran who may have finally shaken his injury jinx and a sophomore who is running better than anyone expected are two of the men who figure prominently in the Harvard cross country team's chances to continue the glowing success it has enjoyed so far this year...