Word: shudder
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...memories of the last adventure of youth, the all-nighters. Mazola parties, touch football along the Charles. Certainly, University Hall still stands in the center of Harvard Yard, and upon seeing the solid construction of Ivy-draped stone masonry we held for 16 hours. I know I will shudder and then remember the Harvard Strike of 1969. And then it will be time to face those very different people we were 15 years...
...artificial blood monopoly serves as a reminder to the U.S. that generousity may be rewarded in the hereafter but never will it advance our economic status. "Adopt, adapt, adept," may cause a shrug, but another saying should make us shudder. "Nice guys finish last...
...ample house gives their new-found senses of identity room to burgeon: "In Van Home's realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses, "not here in town, where bitter water lapped the pilings and placed a shudder of reflected light upon the haggard faces of the citizens of Eastwick as they plodded through their civic and Christian duties...
...case of ships not quite passing in the night. Darkness had fallen, and the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was plying the Sea of Japan after taking part in "Team Spirit '84" military exercises with South Korean forces. Suddenly, the 80,000-ton conventionally powered vessel seemed to shudder from stem to stern. Something solid had struck it. Crewmen rushed to the starboard side just in time to catch a glimpse of what had hit the ship. A submarine without running lights was slinking off into the black waters...
...been visited upon the real town of Lawrence, Kans., rather than upon some back lot of Warner Bros. The best movie sets remain always movie sets, and in a reconstructed Auschwitz, a grimy-faced Vanessa Redgrave remains always Vanessa Redgrave. And as we have lately been watching with a shudder the theatricality of a tousle-haired young actor shot during a Dallas motorcade, we can hardly help asking: Why are we looking at this? What is the point being made...