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Word: shaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tolmie survived two match points in the tiebreaker, making incredible shots under pressure to knot the score at six-all. He was actually helped by a questionable line call by Benefield. The crowd responded in audible disbelief leading Benefield to reverse his call. The incident seemed to shake his concentration, allowing Tolmie to capitalize and take the tiebreaker...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Dominate at Harvard Invitational | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...side, slips a new seven-carat ring on her finger, straps on a pair of silver slippers and sips champagne before setting off for a meal of lobster thermidor. Then it's "Woooooooooow. O.K., roll those babies! Come on! Numbers! Numbers! Numbers!" As Wishnick screams louder and starts to shake all over, the crowd begins chanting, "Eight! Eight! Eight!" At the end of the roll, she walks away from the craps table $5,000 richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found a way to calm the potentially explosive ethnic hostilities threatening to shake his rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Look Who's Feeling Picked On | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...other comments that the authors note are more obscure. When was the last time you heard these lines, incorrectly attributed to poet Ogden Nash: "Shake and Shake the catsup bottle./ None will come, and then...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...show opens with music, a buzzing and humming so powerful you may wonder if Glass actually commissioned 1000 airplanes to land on the roof of the theater. The music intensifies; the walls shake. No longer do you hear the music, you feel it rattling your rib cage, shaking your elbows, your knees, your thighs. Harmonies become distorted, and as they change, they disrupt the rhythm of your heartbeat. A hint of melody develops, disappears, reappears; it is the theme to E.T., except it appears to have been rewritten by someone under the influence of LSD. M appears onstage...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Flying in the Face of Reason | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

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