Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country like Iran will not have consequences for us. We need to see what is happening not in terms of simplistic colors, black and white, but in more subtle shades; not as isolated events but often as part of sweeping currents ... Stability in some countries is being shaken by the processes of modernization, the search for national significance or the desire to fulfill legitimate human hopes...
Next morning, a disappointed and weary Scoones was shaken out of bed by an excited islander. A full-grown coelacanth had been caught, he was told. It was still alive, lashed under a fisherman's canoe. With only a mask and snorkel, Scoones ventured underwater to free his battle-fatigued quarry, then nudged the fish into a current. That was enough to revive the coelacanth for the camera. Pictures taken, Scoones returned the big catch to the natives−for sale, of course, to scientists...
...lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this case a shopgirl and her electronics technician fianc...
There is a certain political logic to the merger. The militant Arab states, and even many of the more moderate ones, were badly shaken by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative. With Egypt neutralized, they would have a hard time presenting a credible threat to Israel. But a united Syria and Iraq, acting with the cooperation of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, would constitute what one Jerusalem official calls "a serious military defense problem along our northern borders." Moreover, the governments of Syria and Iraq are worried about the current upheaval in Iran and the rising militancy of Iran...
...poised hero during his glory days, Cauthen was clearly shaken. "No matter if you have the greatest team in the world," he said, "you [play] out of town sometimes, and you get beat by the local yokels. I've just got to dig in and get tough." Cauthen has been a determined rider ever since he began practicing yoga at 13 to heighten his concentration; a year earlier he was flailing at hay bales to improve his whip technique. But simple cures are often hard to find for slumping athletes. Cauthen, however, does not appear to have picked...