Word: shudder
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What currently makes importers and retailers shudder is the tariff increase imposed by presidential proclamation last summer and instituted on Nov. 1. The American taste for Italian macaroni is on the rise; sales have grown from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. a year now. Even so, that accounts for only 4% of 2.3 billion lbs. of pasta eaten annually in this country. The tariff increase reflects U.S. resentment at the protective duty Europeans maintain on citrus imports from this country. This higher tariff means that consumers will pay 10% to 15% more than the current...
...needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when he encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...
...attending to his research with careful scientific discipline. He was also given to occasional flourishes of gallantry: after transferring a pregnant Jewish doctor to Cracow to do research for him, Mengele sent her flowers upon the birth of her son. Yet his sadism could cause even his colleagues to shudder. According to Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish prisoner-doctor forced to act as his assistant, "in Mengele's presence, the SS themselves trembled...
...agency contract coaxed him to the U.S., but his work went unappreciated. It was subtle and delicate; photo editors who wanted easy- to-read pictures were unmoved. In Paris he had been one of the pioneers of photojournalism. In New York City, where the hustle and grind made him shudder, he turned to routine assignments, flattering swank living rooms for House and Garden...
...lawyers seem to be everywhere. On prime-time and late-night television, on radio, in the newspapers, the blast of advertising is increasingly tough to tune out. "Injuries -- call us first." "You may be entitled to money damages." "Dial L-A-W-Y-E-R-S." While traditional practitioners shudder, the U.S. Supreme Court is not flinching, and last week it seemed to guarantee that the barrage will become heavier...