Word: shudder
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...Harvard, a student of the colonial history of Georgia, claimed that the proposed honor was too great for he memory of a person who was but one of the several to promote the colony. The greater number who opposed the transfer muttered "sacriligious ghouls" I h a righteous shudder...
...engine of his one-track mind into a blind switch. Managers do read plays. That is to say, managers see to it that plays are read. In the larger offices individuals are employed for that express purpose. They read four to six plays a day. With a shudder they send the ninety and nine incredibly bad plays whence they came. The best they place in analyzed detail on the manager's desk...
...serving the Old World helpfully; more power to it. ... Excessive friends of the League have beclouded the situation by their unwarranted assumption that it (adherence to the World Court) is a move toward League membership. Let them disabuse their minds. . . . The situation is likewise beclouded by those who shudder when the League is mentioned and who assume entanglement is unavoidable. Any entanglement would first require assent of the Senate, which is scarcely to be apprehended, and if by any chance the Senate approved of any entanglement, the present Administration would not complete ratification...
...made to secure members. Have you any spite to vent against the Catholics, the Jews, the Negroes, the Socialists, the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese, or any foreign born? The Klan is looking for you. Have you a secret desire to wear a white hood and be taught to shudder at the reports of Klan spies concerning the machinations of "three groups attempting to gain selfish domination over our country; two of them powerful and strongly organized, the third not so powerful nor so well organized but the most immediately dangerous of the three"? According to the Klan's pamphlet...
...ablest men, rather than by the mediocre. It is true that American schools are inclusive: Harvard is frankly exclusive and selective, though not always happily so. Perhaps that is why we sometimes get the "snob" instead of the man we want; the true aristocrat. It is a word we shudder at these days; and yet, did not the Cambridge group of poets and thinkers form a genuinely creative aristocracy, functioning at a time when the rest of America was quite barren of thought...