Word: shudder
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...football's tycoons have a good thing going, and the slightest scent of scandal makes them shudder-all the way to the bank. Last week they got a bad case of the tremblies. Those stories about players betting on pro games turned out to be true. As sports scandals go, this one was strictly bush league. But it was enough to make National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle reach for his cat-o'-nine-tails...
Cassius Clay is Hercules, struggling through the twelve labors. He is Jason, chasing the Golden Fleece. He is Galahad, Cyrano, D'Artagnan. When he scowls, strong men shudder, and when he smiles, women swoon. The mysteries of the universe are his Tinker Toys. He rattles the thunder and looses the lightning. "I was marked," he says. "I had a big head, and I looked like Joe Louis in my cradle. People said so. One day I threw my first punch and hit my mother right in the teeth and knocked one out. If you don't believe...
...show them. But the rumors about Rusk are rampant in Washington: the President has shunted him aside, Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy has displaced him as the No. 1 foreign policy adviser, Rusk is about to resign, his successor will be Bundy or maybe even Bobby Kennedy. "I shudder at this possibility," says a State Department official, "but I know too much to say it's out of the question...
Main reason was that the Big South like an untamed stallion, does its best to shake men loose. Eighty-mile-an-hour winds roar and whistle in its crags and canyons, rain drenches it (sometimes as much as 72 in. in three months), earth quakes shudder through the ground, and termites thrive and multiply. The people who came to such a country and stayed were, first of all, hardy, lonely pioneers and, secondly, oddball fugitives from the world of modern convenience...
...novel's only important lapse is its denouement-the fight with the kike man, which is written as if Friedman were trying to compose an allegory. When the man clobbers him on the ear, Stern "thrills with joy at still being alive," then feels "a warm shudder of sympathy for the man, who had been unable to knock him unconscious with the blow." He walks bloodily home, purged at first, then puzzled to find that the old fear of his enemy down the road is beginning all over again...