Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas, written by 400 professors and assorted experts. Says McGovern: "It was right hard to get those highbrows to part with their beloved footnotes." Even abridged, the average volume was still too long to please King, Leahy or Marshall. On learning that it was 900-odd pages, they would shudder: "Oh my God! Boil it down to three or four...
...local pubs drinking his pint of ale, one would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself when he became too old to enjoy life, and that he [Pierrepoint] would some day do the same himself...
...year-old A.L.P.A. is the world's most gilded and exclusive union. Its members earn salaries like $9,000 (pilot on a domestic run) and $12,000 (senior pilot on a transatlantic schedule). Most of them shudder at the thought of taking in other airline employes such as mechanics or clerks. But they have their own airtight method of enforcing a closed shop...
Some of the advice looked suspiciously ill-chosen. There was good reason to believe that Harry Truman, who has repeatedly stated that he wants the Government to interfere as little as possible, would shudder at the thought of sabotaging the free enterprise system. Yet many observers believed that his fact-finding proposal, with its implications of pegging wages to a company's earnings, would do just that in the long run. And here was Harry Truman asking his citizenry to rise up and demand...
...Christmas Day there was peace, if not good will, among men of the Holy Land. Then, two nights after Christmas, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Aviv felt the shudder of bombs...