Word: quiverful
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...weary Kennedy aide. "They're worse." Humphrey fluctuated between doubt and exultation. "You know what?" he told a reporter, only half in jest, "I may win this primary. It scares me to death. Then what will I do? Every favorite son in the country will begin to quiver again. They'll get as tough as boiled owls...
...journey will take him to protectorates and independent nations associated with Britain. All quiver with complex and generally unrelated problems...
...somewhat tedious and dated story of a gamekeeper who played round games with the lady of the manor, pointed out its philosophical overtones (nature v. civilization), granted its explicit language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions in minute detail of sexual acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit the book may have is far outweighed...
...coolies would really quiver. Duke knows, if he could burn down a few Wolves in the next rumble. But he needs a piece (gun), and the local dealer in hot goods is asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent...
Native's Return. Abdullah Tariki, chief of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, is the unquestioned spokesman of the new generation of ambitious Arab experts in oil. "Absolutely incorruptible," say U.S. oilmen, who quiver at some of Tariki's ideas. "The only Arab who knows anything about the oil business...