Word: quaver
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...been defending the Alamo, except that they shot through the walls, the ceiling, the furniture, even through the floor. At 1 o'clock police got a tear-gas grenade through a window, called again for the boys to give up. "Nuts!" cried the boys, with a perceptible quaver. At 1:30 the police got another grenade through; with tears streaming down their cheeks the desperadoes threw their guns out the window and surrendered...
Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
...window, lowered to the yard for the crowd's inspection. John Crempa, wounded in hand and leg by deputies' bullets, was carried out on the porch in the arms of a husky friend. The thin, overwrought widower stopped crying long enough to lift his bandaged left hand, quaver: "My friends, I want to thank you for the sympathy you have shown for us and for all you have done for us. I hope the blood which my wife shed will do something to help human rights and justice." Then the long funeral procession wound up the road...
...Senate uprose Majority Leader Robinson to quaver: "Probably the most widely known citizen of the United States and certainly the best beloved met his death some hours ago in a lonely and far-away place. . . . Peace to them...
...summon up the courage to deny the habit of a lifetime to the extent of leaving service and opening a restaurant of his own. When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable of a transplanted menial who becomes hero of a town which he describes as "a remote settlement" is as tender and as softly humorous now as it was when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton...