Word: shudderfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope-and a Shudder. "On the opposite side of Rome, indeed in another country altogether, a top official of the Vatican's Secretariat of State summed up soberly: 'Russia's grand contribution to liberty with its battle against Naziism is and will forever remain admirable. Yet the fact is that this decision of America's brings the promise of liberty to millions, and liberty for all peoples there must be, whoever brings it. But the real task remains-to find exact definitions for the words "liberty, democracy, justice" . . . that are everywhere acceptable and applicable. Because...
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...
Suddenly there was a bump, then a shudder. The cockpit was stove in; hydraulic lines burst, spewing fluid over the flight deck. The radio went out. Not knowing what had hit them, the DC-3's pilots brought the disabled ship to an emergency landing at the nearby field at Aberdeen. No one was really hurt...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...
...shudder passed through the Moslem world last week: three sacred hairs from the beard of the Prophet Mohamed were missing from each of two Istanbul mosques...