Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artificial blood monopoly serves as a reminder to the U.S. that generousity may be rewarded in the hereafter but never will it advance our economic status. "Adopt, adapt, adept," may cause a shrug, but another saying should make us shudder. "Nice guys finish last...
...case of ships not quite passing in the night. Darkness had fallen, and the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was plying the Sea of Japan after taking part in "Team Spirit '84" military exercises with South Korean forces. Suddenly, the 80,000-ton conventionally powered vessel seemed to shudder from stem to stern. Something solid had struck it. Crewmen rushed to the starboard side just in time to catch a glimpse of what had hit the ship. A submarine without running lights was slinking off into the black waters...
...been visited upon the real town of Lawrence, Kans., rather than upon some back lot of Warner Bros. The best movie sets remain always movie sets, and in a reconstructed Auschwitz, a grimy-faced Vanessa Redgrave remains always Vanessa Redgrave. And as we have lately been watching with a shudder the theatricality of a tousle-haired young actor shot during a Dallas motorcade, we can hardly help asking: Why are we looking at this? What is the point being made...
Freedom of the press is a precious right. Without it, Americans would be fed claptrap by bureaucrats, who would be their only source of information. When I hear the public lambasting the press, I shudder...
Shortly after dawn, Ismail Kamkas was, as usual, feeding the cows in his barn. Suddenly he felt the earth beneath him shudder and heard a tremendous roar. Thrown clear of the crumbling walls, he looked up to see his house in ruins. Scrambling frantically through the stones and splintered timbers, Kamkas, managed to rescue his father and two of his children. But his wife and two other children could not be saved. As heavy sleet, then snow began to fall, Kamkas, sat through the night beside the rubble that had been his home. "All day long, we tried to find...