Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plunger. "Fire!" The explosion is less a noise than a huge impact. The force of more than half a ton of explosive rattles the bones. There is a short, odd silence, followed by a series of low, menacing rumbles. That means the charges have done their work. Aftershocks have shaken loose more than a thousand tons of gold-bearing rock from the ceiling of the cavern. Smoke tumbles up the nearby escape shaft, thick with the acrid scent of ammonia...
Once, according to one disgruntled creditor, Straw rented a jet to deliver a check: it bounced. Authorities say Straw may face charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud. But in the meantime, his bankruptcy has left the art world's faith in itself considerably shaken...
...capital campaign hasn't shaken Rochester up yet. At a luncheon meeting last January about 20 local alumni gathered to evaluate the prospect for donations, but no one has given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...
...past, strikes and declining sales were the major "irritations" for corporate directors. But today, the corporate campaign threatens them in a more personal way, leaving many directors outcasts from the financial world, a world in which their faith is no doubt shaken...
Price's gifts seem, to American ears, peculiarly English, and that may be one reason American ears have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up with a sound that seems to fall between any two stations on your radio dial. You can drift easily along with an aged-in-wood Price ballad like i Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like...