Word: shiveringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...longer will homing U.S. tourists shiver as they smuggle cheap, paperbound, Tauchnitz classics ("Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A.") past uninterested U.S. customs officers. The Nazis have decreed that the century-old Tauchnitz Library must cease publishing works of U.S. and British writers, which make up the bulk of its 6,000 English-language titles...
Invasion. There came a day when, in the finest symbolic moment in the book, Ling Sao, cleaning a rice cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien...
...South Norwalk, Conn. A churchbell or a caterpillar on a leaf is enough to give her a start. By other than soap opera standards, her stuff is only fair. Her worst, deadline-rushed scripts are aimless and sentimental. But from her best a listener may at least get the shiver of sincere emotion conveyed, an honest word spoken...