Word: shudder
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Suddenly there was a bump, then a shudder. The cockpit was stove in; hydraulic lines burst, spewing fluid over the flight deck. The radio went out. Not knowing what had hit them, the DC-3's pilots brought the disabled ship to an emergency landing at the nearby field at Aberdeen. No one was really hurt...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...
...American Legion convention shook Boston to the marrow of its Brahmin bones. The car-tipping and bonfires, the water-bombs zooming from windows had moved the Harvard Crimson to shudder, "worse than a drunken football crowd." Local rowdies helped tear up the town in the boozy wake of World War I Legionnaires...
...shudder passed through the Moslem world last week: three sacred hairs from the beard of the Prophet Mohamed were missing from each of two Istanbul mosques...
Astronomers believe that meteors are the debris of broken comets, and they shudder to think what would happen if a comet head itself, approaching at some 45 miles per second, were to crash into the earth. Astronomers' guesstimate of the chances: once in 100 million years (age of the earth: two billion years...