Word: shudder
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...President Truman reads it without a shudder he is made of strange stuff...
...thinking of preparing a book on the subject. "But I shudder when I think of funny books. Things never sound the same on paper. Besides, some of my Vermont friends might not like the idea...
Last week the leftish Nation, which has seldom found itself on the same side of the fence as the conservative Digest, dropped a crocodile tear as it extended its "professional sympathy, somewhat ruefully." Said the Nation: "[Monsignor Westenberger's] epithets . . . must have caused a shudder in Pleasantville...
...dance band, began working out some of the arrangements he needed. Then he joined the Coast Guard and got a chance to play for a while in Lieut. Rudy Vallee's bluejacket orchestra. Since then, he has been what he wants to be: a soloist. Some nightclub managers shudder at the thought of a swing harpist, but Maxwell is making inroads and good money. Income last year...
...found the typical boulder-strewn cave that forms when mountains shudder and crack. Water filters down, eroding giant shafts, forming subterranean lakes over layers of impermeable clay. Later earthquakes sometimes crack the lake floor, draining off the water and leaving immense underground chambers...