Word: shudder
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...squeezing through valleys, crawling over hills, plunging down the sides of mountains in great frozen cataracts. What it does not bury or crush, it encircles. And finally, at the continent's rim, it meets the frozen seas, and ice battles ice on a titanic scale. Vast crevasses shudder open along the tortured ridges; ice rafts as large as the state of Connecticut are torn loose from the continental shelf and set floating like derelict monsters in the frigid waters...
...rolling Duke of Kent.) Unable to calm the wild beasts in order to start the finale, Maestro Del Mar and his boys straggled into the wings. To the more mystified than miffed conductor, Satchmo joyously growled: "Your cats are sharp as needles!" Muttered Del Mar with a shudder: "A shambles...
...evils while my friend punctuated each with "It's true. It's true." He dozed for a while, but still mumbled "It's true" at the right moment. My friend was awakened when a state legislator boomed through the microphone, "How long, O America, how long?" There was a shudder throughout the entire audience...
...national leadership of the Christian Democrats, and their coalition partner the Liberals, shudder at La Pira's wild economic theories, but in last May's Italian municipal elections La Pira's Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest vote (101,000) ever given a single party in Florentine history. Unfortunately, despite this heavy vote, the Christian Democrats did not win a clear majority in the city council, which elects Florence's mayors...
...glinting and sprinting out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...