Word: quiverings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduction, Baxter stated that since "the Russians have a full quiver of weapons," and are "extraordinarily well-versed in propaganda," the American position becomes "a problem of multiple defense, difficult to fit into a forty-two billion dollar budget...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...
...Frondizi's margin swelled, he kept a wary eye on the military leaders who had risked everything to overthrow Perón. With perhaps a faint quiver of the upper lip he announced: "I have no commitments to anyone, and will govern solely for 20,000,000 Argentines...
...sent London-based Photographer Larry Burrows flying down to ViHefranche on the French Riviera. Burrows soon ran into trouble: customs red tape ruled out taking the art works ashore; vibration from the yacht's big generators (which Burrows checked by placing a Vichy bottle on deck, watching it quiver) made picture-taking aboard ship impossible. But with Niarchos' aid, Burrows found an emergency source of power for his lights. Some of the harbor's available motorboats were rounded up and their generators wired together for current so that the yacht's power plant could be stilled...
...golden glottis gurgling to a stop? Is there a quiver to those rosebud lips, a beginning of wilt to those poodle-wool sideburns? For two years, lovers of peace, quiet and a less epileptic kind of minstrelsy have waited for Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock 'n' roll, to fade. But knowledgeable disk jockeys and trade bulletins offer such purists little hope. In spite of previously noted tremors, last week rock 'n' roll looked solid as Gibraltar, and Elvis-with a new stomp-and-holler hit, Jailhouse Rock (RCA Victor)- was perched right...