Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young woman arrives at a party. She is thoroughly swaddled in a full-length coat, high boots, fur hat and long gloves. Still, she is shivering. She stomps her feet to shake off the snow and removes her coat. Now the other guests begin to shiver. No wonder: on this bitter midwinter night, the woman is wearing shorts...
...tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte that could serve as his own epitaph: "In spite of the time that has gone by, of opposing sentiments and new subjects for mourning, crowds from every part of the world render homage to his memory and near his grave abandon themselves to a shiver of grandeur...
FRENCH Author François Mauriac not only supplied his characters with flesh and blood, but made the flesh ache and the blood shiver with fear as the sinner stood alone before God, smitten with a sense of guilt and remorse. In his poems and his plays, in his 23 novels and his political musings for Le Figaro and L'Express, the Nobel-prizewinning author explored the nature of human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious...
...still," Merilee told Sam and Alyosha, "if I could get my hands on a kee somewhere and take it up north to sell, do you realize what we could clear? We may be on emergency rations, but up there the folk must be-whushl" It made them shiver to consider...
This winter, commuting to Manhattan and Philadelphia has turned from a burden into a nightmare. Almost every working day, thousands of passengers shiver in the unheated and unlighted cars of stalled trains, while others wait on windy platforms for trains that never arrive or are from 30 minutes to three hours late. The crisis has produced protest meetings and a threat by the New York Public Service Commission to file suit against the Penn Central Railroad for inept performance. It has also cost businesses millions of dollars in lost man-hours and added to the general malaise of city life...