Word: shudder
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...Richard's brain in that body, and she might have won. (I shudder at the thought of that transplant, but she might have.) But Colleen was just cruising through this thing, smiling and tossing her head and dispensing slow-dawning but solid wisdom on the tiny island's Big Picture. On the trivia challenge: "I thought, 'This is gonna be so cool, just like a game show.' Then I was like, 'Wait a minute, we're ON a game show...
...these mucousy old men would stay in office. What twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite sons of their states, I can only shudder to think of what's to come. F. PATRICK BUTLER Innsbruck, Austria...
...clunkers unencumbered by pesky safety devices. We would wave our arms out of windows, have boxing matches in the back seat and fiddle with the door-locking buttons before Mom delivered her don't-make-me-pull-over speech. When I look back on those family car trips, I shudder at how dangerous they were...
...grateful my children are beyond the reach of policies that replace the joy of learning with the fear of failing. As a teacher, I shudder at what the educrats have wrought for America's youth. BETTY RASKOFF KAZMIN Willard, Ohio...
Last week Lee sent another shudder through the tangled relationship. In a carefully calculated statement, he cut away the political fiction that has kept the three parties at peace for nearly three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese mainland and Taiwan two parts of the same country. From now on, declared Lee, Taiwan intended to operate on a "state-to-state" basis with the mainland, demanding that Beijing treat the island as an equal. This "clarification" to Beijing's ears seemed touchily close to a declaration of independence...