Word: quiverers
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...seen me stare off into space, quiver when section leaders ask me about readings I don't even pretend to do and make those lame jokes to cover it all up. Thanks for all the laughs, guys...
BOOKS Dreadnought's arms race would make the superpowers quiver...
...students in frats (the thought makes us quiver...
...most remarkable biography of a monarch in all art, spanning his life from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives, "and I am little inclined to subject myself...
...more than a year, takeover artist and TWA chairman Carl Icahn has been missing from the roiling waters of corporate raids, beached by huge investments in Texaco and USX. But last week Texaco's largest stockholder sent a quiver through the New York Stock Exchange when he abruptly unloaded his 17.3% stake, or 42 million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600 million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction...