Word: shuddered
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...Hungary three weeks later," says Lessing. "The euphoria, that tremendous hope, that belief that people's lives were going to change had gone. A tremendous sadness set in." A Europe in which the memory of the horrors of war was still fresh felt, as it were, a collective shudder. The lessons seemed to be clear: a yearning for freedom would not always be consummated; tanks were more powerful than words; the good guys did not always win; Europe would remain divided. Indeed, at a time when cheap flights make weekends in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic no big deal...
...Some in Bordeaux may shudder at that prospect, but the region as a whole is racing to compete better. Some winemakers are thinking of allowing some winemaking techniques they long spurned, including sprinkling wood chips in maturing wine as a cheap alternative to keeping it in oak barrels. And they recently scrapped their regulations on AOC wine to enable producers to make a table wine, to be called Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique. Christian Delpeuch and other Bordeaux merchants aren't waiting. In the conference room at Ginestet, Delpeuch shows off a bottle of his latest creation, aimed...
Some of the Old Guard in Bordeaux shudder at those tough measures, but the region is racing to better compete. Taking a page from the Aussie book, they are trying to simplify the branding by consolidating some of the 57 separate appellations that are now marketed. Five big areas--Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Bourg, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and Côtes de Bordeaux--are planning to combine into a single, expanded Côtes de Bordeaux label. And the Interprofessional Bordeaux Wine Council, the main industry group, recently scrapped 1990s regulations that forbade vintners...
Among the pros on the amputees' Ward 57 at Walter Reed, no one seemed fazed by my injury. But just the word amputation made me shudder. It conjured up a disjointed series of images: a childhood friend who had lost his leg in an auto accident; World War II veterans wheeled into ballparks for holiday games, their empty trousers or shirtsleeves pinned up. I had avoided mirrors all week. Now I feared seeing the startling reality in the faces of my family and friends who would be visiting on my first day in the hospital...
...parts to the identities of the suspects (24 men and women believed to have been born in Britain, one of whom has already been released without charge), to the supposed imminence of the attacks and to their purported targets: more planes falling out of the sky. But our collective shudder is by now practically instinctive. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have conditioned ourselves to spike every triumph in the struggle against terrorism with a shot of anxiety. Try as we might to secure the perimeter, we walk in the shadow of risk. "This is the story of terrorist threats," says...