Word: shudder
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...many speculators have learned to their sorrow, the inscrutable silver market is a law unto itself. Right now, researchers are avidly seeking substitutes for silver in the manufacture of film, which accounts for 25% of its industrial demand. If they are successful, the silver market will shudder through still another convulsion...
...initial shock did cause numerous cliff falls and rock slides along Amchitka's shoreline. A flurry of barely noticeable tremors followed as the tormented earth adjusted itself around the 800-ft.-wide subterranean cavity created by the blast: 38 hours later, there was a last convulsive shudder as the cavity collapsed. But the danger of radioactive releases was apparently past. The radioactive material is virtually sealed in place by rock compacted by the pressure of the monster explosion...
...informal Richter scale of movie terror, Play Misty for Me registers a few gasps, some frissons and at least one spleen-shaking shudder. A good little scare show, in other words, despite various gaps in logic and probability...
...Together, is the most active women's group in the university. It evolved last year out of a North House collective, and its first concerted action came when it drafted a reply to an infamous letter of F. Skiddy Von Stade Jr. in which he stated that he "would shudder at the thought of changing the balance of males vs. females at Harvard...
America has been unrealistic, Ulam writes. Which is partly true. After World War II the Soviet Union lay weak and tattered. Over 20 million of her people were dead; her industrial plant was devastated. Why did America, relatively unscathed and industrially strong, shudder at its nightmare vision of Russian boots trampling Western Europe? Ulam offers two explanations. Americans were overcompensating for their former low estimation of the Russians--no one had thought the U.S.S.R. could long withstand the Nazi onslaught. And the West felt guilty. The Soviet Union had borne the brunt of the German attack. The British and Americans...