Word: shuddered
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...long after I had been accepted into Harvard, and when I should have been resting on my laurels, I was still very busy. I had the title role in our Drama Festival production of Oscar Wilde’s The Remarkable Rocket. (Said rocket shot off in an orgasmic shudder at the “climax” of the play. No, really.) The newspaper, which I edited, still had to come out, and we were producing a special video celebrating the 350th anniversary of our school on the side. And the chess team was headed to L.A. for Nationals...
...distanced themselves from their erstwhile president, the priestesses of Isis decline comment, and the Hasty Puddingers—well, they’re the ones who turned her in. What this says about the nature of Harvard “popularity” is enough to make you shudder...
Since I used “scant” to describe an offensive output of 1.71 goals per game, I shudder to think how I’ll describe the Raiders’ team average of 1.33. In this case, I’m not so sure that “awful” would be too harsh. What’s more, two of Colgate’s four wins have come against Iona, a mediocre team in the MAAC, a very mediocre conference. Thankfully for the Raiders, things are a little bit better on defense. However, it?...
...easy and obvious solution to one of the most pressing issues facing Harvard today—nay, facing all of undergraduate education. This absolutely burning exigency, this situation which threatens to topple everything that is good and pure about the rearing of students, is of course—I shudder even to mention the term—grade inflation...
...When change comes not with the river's quiet grace but explosively fast, we talk about the world being turned upside down. Sept. 11, 2001 was one of those seismic moments, a day when the planet seemed to shudder and shift on its axis. The pilots from hell who obliterated the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon left a sense of before and after cataclysm. What followed - war, anthrax in the mail, a new airline tragedy in still-reeling New York - made overwhelming the sense that the world is now forever changed...