Word: shudderfully
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...sluggish, shaky takeoff. The four-seat Cessna seemed to shudder from the moment it lifted off Runway 30, and investigators have suggested it was too heavy for the conditions at that altitude. Everyone on board must have instantly realized something was wrong. Jessica's plane was equipped with dual controls, so that Reid could immediately take over in an emergency, and presumably he did--his arms were fractured more severely than hers, suggesting he had his hands on the yoke. In such a situation, an experienced pilot might have landed the plane on the golf course...
...left alone for 24 hours, would they initiate and carry on a meaningful conversation? What would they talk about? Would they need a translator? Are computers able to scheme and then justify their scheming? If computers acquire a brain or a mind, might they develop a psychosis? I shudder to reflect that computer creators will someday develop both good-think and bad-think machines that will go to war, imitating their human creators. ALAN RICHES Halifax, Nova Scotia...
...sense of safety and stability at 9:02 a.m. last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured; for the thousands of people who actually felt the earth shudder and heard the screams; for the now parentless children and childless parents--the balm of time hardly seems medicine enough...
...students Les Welter and Barbara Matteau, the sisters' madness seemed disturbing, but the audience's immediate connection to it--the sense that this violence could exist inside one's own home, beneath the surface of bourgeois contentment--was lacking; people who have never had a servant can't really shudder when a maid cries "You'll see what a servant girl is--I'll strangle...
This is the state of affairs at Harvard. Imagine what's going on at other schools, especially ones with students of lesser intellectual caliber, such as Yale. If Harvard students don't think it's important to keep up with what's going on in the world, I shudder to imagine what students at America's proverbial "Bob's College of Knowledge" do with their free time...