Word: quavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President expressed his emotions of the moment: "For the first Thanksgiving in the last four, we sit down to our traditional Thanksgiving feast without the fear of the casualty list hanging over us. We no longer have to worry about the killing in Korea." Then with a slight quaver he continued: "My wife and I are just exactly like many thousands of other families in America tonight. We have home our son. and what is far more important than that is that our grandchildren have home their Daddy . . . We are very thankful . . . May we never again have to have...
...wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows he is really frightened. One feels just what he must be feeling...
...biggest play, but all year investors scrambled to buy "growth" stocks. Investors were not betting on the prosperous present so much as on the even more prosperous future. Not even war scares or the inroads of new taxes on profits gave Wall Street more than a momentary quaver. After every shake-out the market climbed right up again. At year's end it was close to the peak and seemed to be gathering new strength...
...York's Harlem, the world's biggest Negro community, the weekly Amsterdam News speaks with a loud voice. But when the Negro-owned-and-staffed News hiked its price from 10? to 15? in 1946, its voice began to quaver as circulation slipped from a peak of 110,000 to around 65,000. In an effort to get the frog out of its throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley...