Word: shiveringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moralist I, but I shiver at the apparent absence of basic human decency displayed by so many G.I.s. Many a sane American family would recoil in horror if they knew how "Our Boys" conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships, over here. The few of us who try to behave like normal human beings to friend and ex-foe alike are told time & again, "But you can't be an American-they treat us as if we were dogs or slaves...
...ideals and reality, are tied together by the thoughts and struggles of a few major characters whose aim in life is to better the world. And in The Wind Is Rising, for the first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...
...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...