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...service, and the factors of supply and demand will settle into balance once again. In the meantime, more than a few shipowners grudgingly agree with the Greek shipping journal Naftiliaki, which cynically observes: "What the markets need at the moment is some political crisis that would send a shiver down the spines of charterers and leave them scurrying for any available tonnage...
Among those people who plan class reunions - and a special incorporated body is specially set aside to do the year's work that goes into a 25th-the memory of the Class of '44 brings with it a shiver of trepidation. Most people remember how it rained for the '68 Commencement and how half the graduates had to watch the ceremonies over television if they watched it at all. Few people realize that it had also been raining for the preceding four days. Which means that, for five gawdawful days the Class of '43 sat sequestered in dining rooms...
...bitterest possible Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been born.' I cannot think of that tragic Easter drama," he went on, "without associating it in my mind, as bishop and pastor, with thoughts of the abandonment, of the flight...
...Mourad Saber could steel himself to the charms of Asmaa, daughter of his trustworthy Saudi Arabian assistant? As she served Saber fish soup, "her dress had an outrageously low neckline; her shoulders were bare almost to her breasts. Mourad was not made of wood; he blushed and a shiver went down his spine. 'Asmaa,' he said sternly, 'you lack reserve...
...shiver with affright...