Word: shudder
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...frightened by hot and spicy food. But the new trend in scary candy makes me shudder...
...thought that self-determination might be the wave of the future makes leaders of the established powers shudder. To them, it threatens instability on a horrendous scale. Secessions often have touched off savage neighbor-vs.- neighbor wars, like those in Moldova; in Georgia, where South Ossetians have been fighting to break away and join ethnic brethren across the border in Russia; and of course in Yugoslavia and in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent...
...made me shudder, that word "visit." And once I go home on June 4, I'll only be there for a couple weeks. After that I'm going elsewhere...
...knots of urban poverty is dispersing the poor in manageable numbers to the suburbs. Courts in several states, including New Jersey and Kentucky, have ordered localities to provide low-income housing, or forbidden them to prevent the construction of such housing. The prospect of poor people nearby makes suburbanites shudder. Yet the same self-interest that has made them turn away from the cities may eventually force them to recognize that the larger health of America requires the cities to be rescued. Even in a nation as spacious as the U.S., people are running out of places to escape...
...headquarters in New York City there has been talk of giving Germany a permanent role on the Security Council -- either directly, with a seat of its own, or by establishing a European seat, which the Germans would almost certainly dominate. "What we see -- some among us with a shudder -- is Germany taking the helm in Europe," says James Rollo of London's Royal Institute of International Affairs...