Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Shudder. Schlesinger believes in the "confusion theory" of history as opposed to the "conspiracy theory." According to Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns, the conspiracy theory holds that "if something happened, somebody planned it." Schlesinger, on the other hand, believes in "the role of chance and contingency, the sheer intricacy of situations, the murk of battle." Schlesinger is also scornful of the "prophetic" historians-Marx, Spengler, Toynbee-who use "one big hypothesis to explain a variety of small things." Says he: "They" have reduced the chaos of history to a single order of explanation, which can infallibly penetrate the mysteries...
...cockpit, Captain Kimes felt "a severe shudder," accompanied by the muffled roar of an explosion. His eyes swept the instrument panel in front of him, stopped at the altimeter, which showed 700 ft. and climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine...
...very happy that the Graduate Society thinks so highly of our teaching fellows and that superb instruction in lower-level German courses is becoming legendary among the students," Stein said. "But in view of the fact that we give them only a minimum training program, it makes me shudder to think what teaching fellows are like in other departments," he added...
Church leaders admit that it is somewhat easier to set such a policy than to enforce it. Because of their decentralized structures, most Protestant bodies have to rely on persuasion rather than what they shudder to hear called a boycott, and local churches have had little luck in trying to go it alone. When one racially mixed Presbyterian church in St. Louis insisted on a fair-employment clause in a contract to renovate its sanctuary and build a new community house, it spent months trying to find a contractor willing to cooperate. Even then, difficulties were encountered-such as pipes...
...black point of view, hated making it, and still refuses to sympathize with the spiritually anesthetized character she played. Yet there was something of her in every tremor of the composed, presentable grief that La Notte mercilessly dissected, and four years afterward it can still make her shudder. "There are people like that poor woman, of course," she says, "but that is not what love is like. Not for me, at least...