Word: quivering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the love feast was over, Democratic State Chairman Thomas Jefferson Tubb seemed to think that Johnson and Mitchell had served just the right political victuals. Roared Tubb: "Those who say the Democratic Party in Mississippi is no more, let them listen and let them quiver...
...most remarkable case cited by Dr. Levin involves a hunter and a rabbit: "A rabbit came into view and [the hunter] raised his gun to shoot; but suddenly his arms and neck began to quiver and in his own words, 'everything gave way under me and I squatted like a wet rag.' He had to abandon hunting because [whenever] a rabbit jumped up he would lose muscular tone and fall to the ground...
...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...
...student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special button, wired to a meter on the professor's desk. The more buttons, pressed, the more the needle will quiver, and the more it will behoove the professor to make himself clearer...
...Iverson well had missed, Jacobsen would have tried two or three more wells in different places and, if these were dry, would have written off the $2,000,000 or so loss without a quiver. The thing to remember, he says, is that "you have to be right more often, dollarwise, than you're wrong. It's not just a case of drilling more oil wells than dry holes. You can make a series of mistakes which may cost you a total of $5,000,000, but you can offset them by being right the one time when...