Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the skin suffers a deep third-degree burn, two major regulatory systems go awry. The body loses its ability to control its temperature, causing burn patients to shiver even in temperatures as high as 75[degrees]F. Consequently, burn-unit rooms are often kept around 90[degrees]F, and a burn team's first priority is to warm the patients with heated fluids or heat shields suspended above the patient...
...though it was Germany that insisted on the 3% rule in the first place. For him, the creation of the monetary union and a more integrated E.U. is the essential goal, so he need not squint too hard at the technicalities. Not so the grumbling German people, who still shiver at the memory of the hyperinflation that wiped out the nation's savings in 1923. Germans put great store in a strong, reliable currency and are not thrilled at the prospect of giving up their beloved mark. If they are to trade it in for a soft or unpredictable euro...
...knows? With all this talk of summer, I am not thinking clearly. But neither will you. Summer thickens everyone's intelligence. Look up summer in the Oxford English Dictionary, and you will find this citation (whose spelling I have modernized): "I had rather shiver and shake for cold in the middle of summer, than burn in the middle of winter...
...Doom" makes you shiver and run for cover, never fear. Just as Wesley Snipes showed his softer side in "To Wong Foo," game manufacturers have increasingly cultivated user-friendly products...
...study, which was immediately hailed by other scientists as "audacious" and a "tour de force," sent a shiver of hope through thousands of paralyzed people. Although doctors quickly pointed out that it may be years before last week's findings could be turned into an effective therapy, they too were clearly buoyed. In a companion commentary, New York University neuroscientist Dr. Wise Young wrote, "The possibility of effective regenerative therapies for human spinal cord injury is no longer a speculation but a realistic goal...