Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local police chief. I dread to think what the Cambridge constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group of London policemen would control the crowd, and I shudder when I think of the antics of last nights "riod squad." Perhaps a Harvard student would be naive to anticipate any other conduct on the part of the police having once heard their rankling over the PA system in the Square...
...member of the HYRC, but never have I seen such an accurate appraisal of the high command of Harvard's Republican organization. As political manipulators, they are tops. Wire recorders under piles of dirty laundry and rigged conventions are right up the alley of Roger Allan Moore & Company. I shudder to think of what might happen to the country if these admirers of Machiavelli should ever hold public office...
...behalf of those Americans for whom the "shrill upper register" voice of Eleanor Roosevelt echoes the highest ideals of this deranged era, I want to extend my sincere thanks to TIME-a magazine I generally read with apprehensive glance and frequent shudder...
...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...
Prairie Godiva. The trail-end towns seemed to be designed with two things in mind: receiving cattle and raising hell. The very names of towns like Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene made decent folk shudder in the 1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about...