Word: shiverers
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...Shiver Money." Speed is the order. Men of the 513th Quartermaster group supervise the unloading of ships bringing supplies from Britain and the U.S. Cargoes are transferred to trailers on the long docks. Most of the stevedore work is done by Belgians, who get 130 francs a day, plus one meal, plus 30 francs "shiver money," for working in Antwerp's hell...
...Canadian Medical Association and the Toronto Board of Education have damned the blood-and-thunder programs as dangerous; a committee in the House of Commons has found the shows in "bad taste." Last week Dr. Augustin Frigon, general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was certain that the shivers were on their way out of the shiver-shows-to the point where nary a hair of an innocent child would be stood...
...leaders stood between Occupied Europe and the execution of the extremists' plans. This minority argued that Germany's one hope was to make no more enemies, do nothing to increase the huge postwar reparations bill. Germans who put forward this sensible argument must have remembered, with a shiver, Adolf Hitler's words last January: "In the end there will be no victors or losers, but only survivors and annihilated...
...Alexandre Dumas fils. Dumas was also trying to eke out his earnings by playwriting. Whenever the baby howled too long, Dumas slammed the future author of The Lady of the Camellias against the bed. "I can still see myself in the air," Dumas fils used to say with a shiver years later...
Synthesis. In New Bedford, Mass., Jeannette Hotte wed Sergeant S. A. Shiver...