Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliance growing as the grieving crowd multiplied. By the time they reached the steps of the bronze-domed city hall, the crowd of youthful homosexuals, male and female, had been joined by many more conventional citizens, and an army of some 30,000 mourners expressed the sorrow of the shaken city...
...honed intelligence. The presence of Wilton's Emma would warm any flat, and as for Gambon's Jerry, he is a fond slave of love, though perhaps too passive to be a literary agent. Few playgoers can have left The Caretaker and The Homecoming without being viscerally shaken up. Quite a few may leave Betrayal, with its anesthetized passions, feeling vaguely shaken down...
...that no one had ever seen before. When the group performed on Broadway last year for four weeks of near sold-out performances, Critic Arlene Croce admitted that the Pilobolus Dance Theater, to give the group its first, last and middle names, had gone beyond mere ingenuity: "We are shaken out of admiration into...
...powerful politicians, Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert detailed alleged "improper application of taxpayers' money running into millions." Johannesburg's antigovernment Rand Daily Mail has dubbed the affair South Africa's "Watergate." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the judge's disclosures have shaken the six-week-old regime of Prune Minister Pieter W. Botha and could wreck the career of Minister of Plural Relations Cornelius P. Mulder, 53, who had been considered a leading candidate to become Prime Minister some...
...thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation of the carnage: "The latest events have left almost no family without a casualty and have ruined almost every house...