Word: shiveringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris police department made a sampling of living conditions, concluded that 37.3% of the city's population was living in dwellings judged "insufficient" or "very insufficient." For the younger generation things are even worse: 55.5% of those married between 1950 and 1954 are unsuitably housed. Thousands of youngsters shiver in chambres de bonnes, tiny maids' rooms atop Paris apartment houses, without running water and heat, and only a single toilet for the entire floor...
...delegates plowed through hundreds of thousands of words-a few of them angry. Stormed Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert Jr., president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, about the decision to keep the National Council headquarters in New York City instead of moving it to Chicago: "The decision . . . sent a shiver of dismay and apprehension through the Christian people who live west of the Alleghenies...
...Yale fan, always prone to prejudice, noted the passing of these three with varying degrees of regret--the first was pleasant if non-essential, the second important if not indispensable, the third, at this particular point indispensable. And thus, with a nod and a shiver at this good Yale team and its huge line, it would appear that for the second successive season an underdog Crimson team will upset the Bulldogs...
...business with an equally unusual record of chiming music boxes, built his label (Sounds of Our Times) up to the point where he is now releasing full-scale symphony LPs, has other record executives keeping a slightly envious eye on him. Cook's market remains mostly "audiophiles," who shiver in ecstasy over a tingling triangle while hardly noticing whether the music is a symphony or a psalm. But the number of listeners who look for realism in recorded sound is multiplying every day. Last year, hi-fi fans bought 100,000 Cook...
...British rulers banned it more than a century ago, educated Hindus deplore it, and law forbids it. But suttee, a widow's ritual suicide upon her husband's funeral pyre, still takes place occasionally in modern India, for the final test of wifely purity sends a shiver of admiration through the devout...