Word: shudder
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...Roman editor and the London advertising executive who used very similar phrases to describe the timidity of conservative forces in their respective countries. "You know," said one, "one of the main drags on them in contemplating any kind of anti-Communist action is just that they all twitter and shudder with nervousness lest they get associated with McCarthyism...
...earth. You know-freedom for every soul among us, justice in every court, opportunity, homes, schools, decency toward your neighbors, fairness in all things. I never realized, as I say, how people everywhere saw all this as quickly as they looked at us or thought of us. Now-that shudder of surprise and revulsion that these same people feel-it really means something more. It measures the respect, the love, the real love, we once had. Nobody else ever had it. We didn't know ourselves-and without this, few of us might ever have known that...
...General William F. Dean said that he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity . . . I shudder to think of the situation that would exist within the armed forces ... if it became commonly acceptable for all military men to gulp the "Dean bean" that they have been gingerly carrying around with them in their watch pocket for use when in danger...
...over brush, fence, rail and water, including famed, treacherous Becher's Brook. Last week a crowd of 250,000, including a big contingent of Irishmen and a flock of hopeful holders of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets, turned out to watch the 108th running of the Grand National and shudder at the spills. The footing was soggy and spills came early: three horses went down at the first jump, two at the second. Only nine of the 29 starters finished, and four horses were killed...
After a half-century of anarchy, music by young Americans seems to be settling down to an era of less revolution and greater creativity. Student composers no longer insist on cacophony just to sound up-to-date, nor do they shudder at anything resembling melody...