Word: shudder
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...them, that seeing them on a college level more amuses than disturbs them. They are just another aspect of unimportant, recreational activities; they are above the concern of the scholar. One is more inclined to laugh at the way these men try to imitate their elders than to shudder over the realization that this sort of loose morality may carry over into more important fields after college...
...desperately tried to stay aloof from Tibet's agony. Nehru recently sought to expel a British missionary correspondent for passing on "bazaar rumors" of trouble; what is going on in Tibet, said Nehru, is "a clash of wills, not arms." But the fact of actual battle sent a shudder of passion through the subcontinent. Indian newspapers called for action, and the Indian Express asked angrily: "If New Delhi could rightly condemn the Anglo-French aggression on Egypt, thereby castigating a fellow member of the Commonwealth, what prevents it from raising its voice in protest at Peking's effort...
...Christians should shudder," stormed Pastor Duncan, "at the idea that the agony in the garden of our blessed Lord, one of the most awful events in his Passion, should be thus exploited . . . Where are we going to stop? Next thing will be our Lord on the cross with his last words in stereophonic sound. I have no objection to religious art, but when you begin having dolls . . . good...
After a look at your cover of Feb. 2, I shudder that the affairs of our nation are in the hands of these men. Before learning their identity, I thought that in view of the oncoming baseball season you had dug skeletons out of the bleachers of old Ebbets Field...
...oldest and most devoted of Stevenson's followers. Since Ziffren would presumably be in charge of convention arrangements (with 6,000 gallery tickets to pass out), the admirers of such presidential hopefuls as Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Missouri's Stuart Symington could only shudder at the prospect...