Word: shudderfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped by buying drawings. England's conservative critics did not share their enthusiasm. Said London's Morning Post of early Moore exhibitions of carvings: "They are not 'art'; they should come under the heading of 'Embryology and Morphology.'. . . Sensitive people, especially women, must shudder in the face of these monstrosities." But Moore has continued for years to use the female figure as a base for fantastic exercises in form...
...told such stories during a recent trip home.to San Francisco. The League for Service Men rummaged through their closets and bureau drawers, handed the General a 70-lb. package to take back to his post. Last fortnight the League started a campaign whose title made more sensitive San Franciscans shudder ("Buddies' Baubles for Barter"). But the campaign was popular: one week's collection took in 17,000 trinkets totaling half...
...whose windows look out over the rolling Lincoln country, Republicans cheerfully and riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing. (The House GOP leader applied an old gag to a new situation: "I hear that a lot of parents around the United States are being called Key Birds-they shudder down in the bottom of their cages and say, 'Key-rist, it's cold.' ") It made little difference that this is a Federal problem: Illinoisans must be kept informed (and GOPsters can gather a little campaign material). By the time the investigation is completed, it will...
...defeat: "I actually put my revolver to my head. I thought I would cry out: 'May Great Imperial Japan live forever!' in so loud a voice that the enemy would hear me, and then press the trigger. But the feel of the cold steel made me shudder, and I hastily replaced the weapon in my holster. I wanted to live on as long as I could. Thoughts of home brought tears to my eyes, and I shut them and prayed...
...danger of going over to dictatorship. . . . We are seeing before our eyes this week the breakdown of legislative Government. Congress is not legislating. It is carrying out the orders of a handful of farm lobbyists. ... To see this thing . . . is an appalling event which sends a shudder through your frame if you want to keep this a democracy. Time and again I have said that dictatorships rise up out of the decayed ruins of parliamentary Government. . . . Congress, you are asking for it, and it will be a sorry day for the United States of America...