Word: shudder
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...literacy campaign--recites to his pupils lessons like: "The Sandinista Front guards against Yankee imperialism." Along the highways, there are those insipid billboards--the smiling workers with strong shoulders and full faces, who sell only happiness and, by inference, obedience. The crudity of the symbols causes a little shudder. They seem so familiar, and they should, since they mark every up-to-date society, from Iran to Libya to, as these movies show, Nicaragua...
...rise on forecasts and prophecy. A change of a percentage point or two in assumptions about unemployment, the cost of living or gross national product can mean projected billions in Government income or deficit That, in turn, means more billions of change forecast in the private money markets, which shudder instantly to new speculation from Washington Ail error of one percentage point in unemployment estimates can add up to a $25 lion error in the budget sums...
...After one great massing of soldiers, another greater one is prepared . . . one will see then fire in the sky coursing from a great missile"). Said Le Point: "Fear is becoming a market. One hundred days after having brought Mitterrand to power, our citizens are paying $20 a copy to shudder in horror...
President Reagan has decided to sell special fuel tanks to Saudi Arabia for its F-15 fighter planes, which will enable it to reach and bomb our towns. During his recent visit, Secretary of State Alexander Haig called Israel "our permanent ally." I shudder to think what foreign statesmen who don't think of Israel as a permanent ally might...
...Jersey. She does her standards, like Can't Help Loving Dat Man of Mine, and successfully essays a few that are not attached to her name, like The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. When she begins Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, a premonitory shudder passes through the theater. She does not disappoint, and the words-"I'm a rich, ripe, ready plum again"-are not sung but caressed, as if they were old friends, which they clearly are. Sixty-four next month, Horne has not only been around, she has been all around...