Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...
...from the very beginning considered a sign of grace in the Christian martyrs-as though grace could do more for a human being than it could for Christ. Those who believe that God himself, once he became man, could not face the harshness of destiny without a long tremor of anguish, should have understood that the only people who can give the impression of having risen to a higher plane, who seem superior to ordinary human misery, are the people who resort to the aids of illusion, exaltation, fanaticism, to conceal the harshness of destiny from their own eyes...
Charlie Bishop is all newspaperman. If a fire truck passes his house, he calls the paper to find out where the fire is. When last September's earthquake began shaking Ottawa, Charlie had his office on the phone 30 seconds after the first tremor, just to make sure the paper knew about...
...sound of minestrone was all but lost in the excited conversational buzz. The buzz was about a curvaceous blonde named Dorothy Kirsten. When she had appeared in a revival of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta...
...Tremor in Cairo. A pro-Partisan source in Cairo estimated Tito's nominal strength at 236,000 (not all of whom are armed or fighting at any one time). His success, or even his continued survival, was bound to shake the already shaky Yugoslav Government in Exile, further endanger the position of young King Peter in Cairo...