Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other than this stress on discipline, the suggestions in the Crimson seem to me quite sound. Also they do not seem in the least, in other matters, to disagree with Mr. Munroe. But the return of Hour Examinations, and Quizzes, and Attendance, sends a cold shiver down my spine, and completely cclipses, for me, any value there may have been in the rest of your article. R. S. Fletcher...
...Navy ranks the news of their new CINCUS caused one cheer, two shivers. One shiver was for "Jappy" Hepburn's reputation as an iron disciplinarian who has "broken" many a transgressing officer. Another shiver, among Navy hardshells, was for his reputation as a forthright, positive, energetic officer with an amenable spirit toward governmental economy and international amity, a determined regard for 6-inch guns. The cheer was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy...
...this be treason, let the White House shiver...
...Come up here, you Georgia Crackers!" 75-year-old W. A. Shiver shouted through his snowy, walrus mustache. This tieless cotton farmer from Cairo, Ga. also launched a running tirade against his fellow-Georgian, anti-New Dealer Governor Eugene Talmadge, crying: "We ain't got no Governor, but we're here anyhow...
...Shiver expressed the convention's sentiments when he interrupted by shouting: "Brother, we just knocked 'em loose from the teat a little bit. We're gonna knock 'em all the way loose and suck a little ourselves...