Word: shudder
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...brings the novel to its mystical climax. "She laughed into his throat as the chill weight pitched over her, warm beneath the chill. The wantonness of it at noon with all the summer world at work while with the furious young angel she mounted higher, deeper, until with a shudder the blue air burst and they fell, an amen of exhausted wings...
...Paulis are not likely soon to forget the heavy tread of the mercenaries. And it will take the whites even longer to forget or forgive the enormities committed by the Simbas. A great many of the Belgians and other whites who lived and worked in the Congo now shudder at the thought of returning. And yet, others-a surprisingly high number-have already said that after a while, they will go back, if asked. In all likelihood, they will not go in the spirit of a Paul Carlson, who once said, "In this century, more people have died for their...
...Communist aggression. Bonn understandably balks at any strategy that places the Rhine as the point at which all-out retaliation would begin. Recent training exercises by French troops indicated that French generals are more interested in defending French territory than in meshing with NATO. And all the other allies shudder at the prospect of giving quarreling NATO members Greece and Turkey any sort of access to any sort of nuclear weapons...
...statisticians warned that we should look out for last year and this year," Glimp explained, "and we were prepared for a substantial increase." He added, in the class. however, that he "would shudder at the thought of an overall increase of 20 per cent this year...
Captain Hopman accepted congratulations with customary modesty. "We expect to keep the cup awhile," he said. If the Yanks wanted to win it back, they had better "get someone like me to take charge." That was enough to make any aspiring U.S. Davis Cupper shudder. Hopman runs his team like a Marine sergeant bossing the brig. He puts his players through punishing four-hour practice sessions, fills their spare-time hours with such joys as cross-country runs and weight lifting. With younger players, he dictates menus, bedtimes, social activities. "Don't forget," Hopman explains, "these boys...