Word: shudderfully
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...white gingham check pattern. I rememberbecause as we approached the store the streetswere littered with these begs. People would buysomething, leave the store, throw out their bagand put the merchandise into a backpack or anotherplastic bag. They weren't pound of their bargains.They were almost ashamed. I still shudder to thinkof it. They didn't want anyone to know they hadjust gotten a bargain...
Those of us who go to school at Harvard know what it is to have our urban environment destroyed. Anyone who must pass by the shudder-inducing sign trumpeting the Shops by Harvard Yard on a daily basis needs no reminding about the necessity of preserving and enhancing our surroundings in appropriate ways...
...matter what his new colleagues in parliament may think of him, Zhirinovsky's success in vote gathering will almost certainly allow him to treat Russia's national legislature as a personal soapbox from which to promote ideas that are making the rest of the world shudder. In the end, those ideas, and the resounding response they have elicited, say as much about Russia as they do about Zhirinovsky...
Despite the global shudder, the betting is that Yeltsin will lurch forward with his economic and social agenda, his hand strengthened by new constitutional powers. Now, when legislators balk three times at his choice of a Prime Minister, he can call new elections. He can also select his government in sole consultation with the Prime Minister. That makes it unlikely that Yeltsin will offer a post to anyone in Zhirinovsky's camp. If Yeltsin doesn't like a piece of legislation, Deputies will have to corral a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override his veto...
...slaughter produced a national shudder, the kind that follows any awful crime that bleeds into unexpected corners -- the toddler caught in cross fire during a trip to the Denver zoo, eight people gunned down in a swanky San Francisco law firm, and now five dead and 18 wounded by the gunman on the commuter train. These are the crimes that seem impossible to prevent, to avoid or to forget. And they have a way of focusing the mind...