Word: shudder
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...writes Harold on a sheet of yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms its black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
...plans to spend a week-end in Stratford, it is advisable to make arrangements in advance. While (shudder) New Haven and Bridgeport are not exactly resort towns, there are numerous hotels and motels in both places. The Festival stands ready to make reservations in advance...
...done so with such tradition-shattering flamboyance as the duke. On the 3,000 acres of Woburn Park, just 40 miles from London, and in the gold-and-damask rooms of Woburn Abbey, things go on these days that would have made the first twelve Dukes of Bedford shudder. His present Grace has turned the place into a sort of Disneyland-with a degree of success that has made him both the target and the envy of all those engaged in what his duchess calls "the stately-homes racket...
...Bolles', and John Yovicsin's blood after the 54 to 0 loss against Yale. The eleven's 3 and 5 record has been worse in recent years, but an eight touchdown loss to the Eli effectively ruins any season. Few Harvard fans will ever remember without a shudder the spectre of Dick Winterbauer cocking his arm in the direction of the Crimson goal line for one of his numerous touchdown passes. It must be remembered, however, that the game found the varsity at its lowest physical peak of the year as most of the starting line along with half...
Having lived (gasp!) in the vicinity (shudder!) of Harvard for the past eight years, cartoonist Al Capp feels that there is such a thing as a single "Harvard type." When one says "Harvard man" in a comic strip, according to Capp, a particular image immediately occurs to the reader. The public has fixed ideas, and "just as the Bowery stands for a bum or Wall Street stands for high finance, the name of Harvard stands for something--a sort of confused superiority...