Word: shiver
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...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
Long Credit. To worrywarts who shiver at the thought of what such a pact might do to private enterprise if the Federal Government doles out the contracts, there came assurances last week from Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. The tentative plan is to let U.S. business carry the ball alone, let Russia place her contracts where she wants, and arrange her own credits. Only when the Russians run short of credit would the Federal Government step in and advance funds to be paid off in raw materials...
Fewer and fewer bottles have been seen this year at the Stadium, but Harvard football has been blest with warm weather to date, and no real shiver-test has come along to bless the liquor-purveyors. Attendance has been dropping also, so even if the percentage of boozing undergraduates remained constant, the effect on local salesmen would decrease...
...recently broadcast that three new types were in action. The types: a patrol plane, the Shite (the doer); a heavy bomber, the Donryu (the destroying dragon); and a fighter, the Shoki (Righteous Purifying Spirit). "In annihilation operations," Tokyo boasted, the new planes had "made the enemy America and Britain shiver with fear...
Yale men prepared to shiver in their collective shoes this winter as the college sternly warned that all room temperatures would be strictly limited to 65 degrees. Perhaps the edict which struck closest to home was that ordering the lowering of the temperature of the hot water to mild glaciality...