Word: shudderfully
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...Germany. We wouldn't live the same kind of lives - that is the easiest way of putting it. Because that new- not the old German civilization- that new German civilization is so totally different from what all of us have been accustomed to since we were born. I shudder to think of what would happen to any part of the Hemisphere that came under German domination...
...train of thought was an article the Vagabond had read in the morning's paper something about compulsory athletics, climbing over barbed wires, digging trenches, running all over the landscape, and indulging in other forms of senseless exhibitionism concocted by the sadistically inventive minds of the College authorities. Vag shuddered, as visions of physical exertion passed across his mind; it was a long, spine-shaking shudder, such as he was accustomed to utter when he saw his tutor walking toward him on Mass. Avenue...
...youngish man with a flashy smile and a broken accent, Bengamin Gayelord Hauser, "food adviser" to many a movie star, cut up fruits & vegetables, stuffed them into an electric chopper, quaffed the juice as he delivered the kind of message that makes M.D.s shudder. Samples...
When the first ghastly day was over, Honolulu began to reckon up the score. It was one to make the U.S. Navy and Army shudder. Of the 200,000 inhabitants of Oahu, 1,500 were dead, 1,500 others injured. Not all the civilian casualties occurred in Honolulu. The raiders plunged upon the town of Wahiawa, where there is a large island reservoir, sprayed bullets on people in the streets. Behind the Wahiawa courthouse a Japanese plane crashed in flames...
Most of the discussions of the strike going on this week at the captive-coal mines sound like plain prejudiced shouting. Men who shudder at the very mention of the word "union" dismiss the side of the workers without a thought of the rights of the union shop. Men who get the same reaction to the word "management" refuse to consider the side of the steel companies. Defense addicts accuse the strikers of disloyalty. Isolationists claim the government measures are the opening wedge of fascism...