Word: quivering
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...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...
...midnight." In Britain's often unimaginative industrial hierarchy, bustling Bill Lyons sticks out, looks and talks more like a Detroit auto builder. A three-time visitor to the U.S., he has picked up Yankee ways, pops out press releases that would make a sedate company like Rolls-Royce quiver in embarrassment. Sample: "Mr. Clark Gable has [owned four] Jaguars; Mr. Adam Gimbel has two ... To visit the New York showroom is to court the possibility of rubbing shoulders with many notabilities of rank and fashion...
...cobbled streets when the first of the 200,000 men, women & children funneled into the old cathedral town of Durham. In a noisy, hilarious parade, they cascaded through the streets to the old abandoned race course, where every year the coal miners of Durham County quaff free beer and quiver at oratory at their annual Miners' Gala (pronounced gayler...
Camrose's magazines are on the tables of almost every British home. Teen-age girls read his Home Chat, after they are married they read his Weldons Ladies Journal. For children he has comic books, for parsons Quiver; there are dozens of technical, trade and professional magazines, on everything from farming to motorcycling...