Word: shiver
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...that they could make fire and stand upright. In the filth of their gloomy forest village, Gheerbrant saw that the Guaha-ribo "still sleeps in his dark, damp haven, curled in on himself like a foetus. He is as yet immune to those feelings which make a man shiver and inspire him to go forth into the outer light ... He flees from the light at once, hiding himself in the thickest part of the forest...
...just eight minutes, all 18,000 reached assembly points, along main arteries, theoretically to be picked up by vehicles and raced out of town. Actually, they stood around, staring down the empty streets and glancing with a shiver at the grey sky, until the all-clear sounded. Then they trudged back to the day's routine. If nothing else, the test proved that civil defense-even in the nuclear age-is no more obsolete than the instinct of self-preservation...
Repeatedly he returned in his talks with Price to a youthful experience that forever after shaped his thought. In the 1880s, "nearly everything was supposed to be known about physics that could be known ... By the middle of the 1890s, there were a few tremors, a slight shiver as of all not being quite secure, but no one sensed what was coming. By 1900 the Newtonian physics were demolished, done for! ... I have been fooled once, and I'll be damned if I'll be fooled again! . . . There is no more reason to suppose that Einstein...
...January thaw has passed. Temperatures in Boston may drop to 12 above zero today as arctic air floats down south and east over the continent. Northern New England may shiver with 10 or 15 below readings...
When the President's remarks were released in the press, they sent a cold shiver through the hearts of scores of politicos who had hoped the President would do their big vote-getting for them in 1954. Next day G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall hustled over to the White House to get a first-hand interpretation from the Chief...