Word: quiveringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...released in a quake when the rock suddenly fractures and the plates lurch ahead. Yet the New Madrid area lies in the very heart of the North American plate, far from its boundaries. Why should it have shaken so violently in the early 1800s and, in fact, continued to quiver occasionally ever since...
Pope John Paul II said it with hardly a wince, hardly a quiver of intimidation even with the Combat Zone burning bright to the South, with Kruggerrands on sale in banks down the street, with every journalist and photographer struggling in vain to convert him and his mission to a catchy cliche for sale on the morning stands...
...head sports the pagan curls of a young Harpo Marx, and his face and body quiver with some of the same nutty, berserk humor. But native Chicagoan Stephen Wade, 26, has a great deal more to offer than that...
...like Boog Powell trying to bunt. Flynn, the great rakehell, leaves no doubt that he knew how to rustle Maid Marian's bustle and no one could accuse his progeny of lacking cojones--witness Sean Flynn's disappearing into the Cambodian jungle with a moped, a Nikon in his quiver, a few cigarettes and a flawless jawline. Not unlike Operation Sherwood Forest in 1936 color. Infra dig, Mr. Eastman! Love...
...passively and eliminating the distinctions between the observer and the observed are Zen basics that have been familiar to Western readers since Eugen Herrigel told us how the bow and arrow became an extension of his body in Zen in the Art of Archery (1953). Matthiessen has a full quiver and considerable patience; his problem seems to be an overabundance of targets...