Word: shudder
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Every place has at least one crime that makes it shudder. Maryland had the Pamela Basu case, in which the young woman in a gold BMW was dragged to her death trying to save her baby daughter when thieves drove off in her car. Los Angeles mourned Sherri Foreman, 29, a pregnant beautician who was stabbed by a carjacker when she stopped her 1984 BMW at an automated-teller machine. By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, the 12-week-old fetus was dead. A day later, so was the mother...
...already done enough. For many Americans, the horror of Bosnia is a modern- day Holocaust that carries a moral obligation to intervene. Some Americans think the U.S. can do so at a low cost in lives, expecting the fast-acting, high-tech precision of the Gulf War. But many shudder and see the frustration of Vietnam, the years of domestic conflict and the long black slabs of the Vietnam Memorial engraved with 58,000 names...
...only shudder when I imagine how many Muslims, Croats and, yes, even Serbs are wondering how much more "shooting back" must continue until America and its allies--composed of people like you and me--wakes up from its murderous slumber. Dominique Padurano...
...Winthrop, seniors might well get their own bedrooms in suites of several. In Lowell, and other places perhaps, "single" refers to one's own common room, bath, and bedroom. There are maybe a dozen such senior singles in Lowell, places that would be called junior doubles or even (shudder) sophomore triples in Winthrop; or they'd be tutor suites. This difference existed when I was an undergraduate and it persists today...
...most folks, deja vu may provoke a momentary shudder, the creepy sense of having sidestepped into the twilight zone. For Hollywood, though, it is a guiding principle. The industry wants audiences to feel they have seen this ( thing before but don't know where or when. Nearly every movie plot is a reprise of a story that has already worked. Recombinant familiarity means box office; originality is an orphan, subversive and suspect...