Global markets had indeed been shaken in late February but then had rebounded.
Pope's family was also shaken in 2004, when his brother died unexpectedly.
The city's godlessness was shaken in 2005 by the "honour killing" of a young Turkish woman.
In the world of lyric annotation website Rap Genius, hip-hop's 2013 heavyweights proved hard to shake in 2014.
The field was shaken in 1947 after a Bedouin goatherd stumbled across ancient scrolls in a cave west of the Dead Sea.
That was shaken in February 1999 by a series of bomb blasts in the capital, Tashkent, which killed at least 16 people.
The industry was shaken in 2005 by disclosures that a major maker of heart defibrillators, Guidant, had not warned doctors about a potentially fatal flaw in its products.
Denmark's government was shaken in 2014 when investment bank Goldman Sachs was allowed to purchase an 18% stake in Denmark's biggest energy company, the largely state-owned DONG Energy.
And the Tchaikovsky competition came at a time when American morale had been shaken in 1957 by the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite.
The ordeal involved searing letters, a contentious board election and no shortage of harsh words — the same playbook he used to gain control of Steak 'n Shake in 2008.
