Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evils while my friend punctuated each with "It's true. It's true." He dozed for a while, but still mumbled "It's true" at the right moment. My friend was awakened when a state legislator boomed through the microphone, "How long, O America, how long?" There was a shudder throughout the entire audience...
...national leadership of the Christian Democrats, and their coalition partner the Liberals, shudder at La Pira's wild economic theories, but in last May's Italian municipal elections La Pira's Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest vote (101,000) ever given a single party in Florentine history. Unfortunately, despite this heavy vote, the Christian Democrats did not win a clear majority in the city council, which elects Florence's mayors...
...glinting and sprinting out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...
...attitude, around which a whole school of humor has grown up. The classic story of this school is, I believe, the following: A young officer who had lived through the Battle of Dunkirk was being urged by his hostess at a dinner party to describe his experiences. With a shudder he replied: "The noise, my dear! And the people...
...ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...