Word: shudderfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this year, with industrial production up 15%, total coal loadings, which usually pace production (especially in boom periods), were up less than 8%; bituminous coal production through mid-September was up only 9%. Government officials shudder at the implications of some industrial stocks-on-hand statistics (as of Aug. 1): electric utilities had 62 days' supply (compared to 80 days' last year); Ohio steel mills had 20 days' supply (v. 23); Illinois-Indiana by-product coke ovens had 47 (v. 72). At year...
...thud as (three words censored) bombs explode about a mile distant. There is no respite from the gunfire now. Wheece... a bomb glides right over as and penetrates a lawn 500 yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake it is dislodged and flicked off into the garden to burn itself out; had it been left it would...
...great panic" began on July 14, 1789. It lasted 22 years. In Paris, the mob had captured the Bastille. But in the countryside, "at first there was a sort of general shudder of fear. The long-established royal authority . . . seemed shaken; and . . . it was the only form of authority [the peasants] could understand." Suddenly there was a rumor: "Here are the brigands! They're coming to burn our forests and cut our wheat! On guard and arms!" All over France the peasants armed themselves and started beating the countryside for brigands who were never found. In the Midi they...
Many an old airman used to shudder at the thought of 225-hour pilots stepping into souped-up pursuits. Now the youngsters and their instructors know more about the ships, which have also been improved. If anything, the young tyros from Kelly do better on the tricky landings than do some older pilots, who have been too long used to ships which required less careful ground flying. Result: The Army Air Forces' training losses are far fewer than in the war-pressed R.A.F., whose youngsters often go into battle with half the experience which U.S. pilots have already...
...original storyteller ever dreamed of; these, and their solution, make up the rest of Mann's book. A fade-out starts Sita's child, who combines many of the features of all three, on his career. His name is Samadhi, which means Collection. (Such symmetries make one shudder to think what Dr. Mann could do with Abie's Irish Rose.) This story is told with a great writer's irony at its most bland, cruel and elegant...