Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four propellers, with a mighty thrust, churned up a boiling wake, and the great ship tore through the water at well over 30 knots with barely a tremor. Overheated bearings forced Commodore Manning to postpone the full-speed test. But some salts aboard estimated that at one time the ship was making about 35 knots, and would be capable of more with the engines full out. (The Queen Mary, current transatlantic champion, made her record run in 1938 at an average speed of 31.69 knots, hit a top full day's speed of 32.08.) Said Vice Admiral Edward...
Through the abbey-like halls of the London Times, in the spring of 1908, ran a tremor of genteel horror. The "gentlemen scholars" who were used to running the Times as if it were a hereditary and self-perpetuating priesthood heard shocking news: the paper's control had been bought by Lord Northcliffe,* first lord of Britain's yellow press. "Ye Black Friars," as Northcliffe called them, feared the worst, and it soon came. The Times, said the new chief proprietor, might be what the "monks" called an institution, but it was not a newspaper...
...awkward for a believable Aida. The really outstanding principal in this production was Mario Del Monaco. His Radames was always exciting. Not only can be act, but also his full-bodied tenor voice (especially in "Celestc Aida" where he hit the fabulous B-flat without a tremor) shows training and power...
Without a warning tremor, the worst earthquake in El Salvador's history struck the town of Jucuapa (pop. 12,000) last week, shattering the peace of a Sunday afternoon with the crash of collapsing roofs and walls...
Victory, Not Indecision. As he spoke, MacArthur kept his hands firmly anchored to each end of the lectern, except to turn pages. Only once, when he reached for a glass of water, did he show the slight hand tremor he has had since the middle of World War II. To his critics who charged him with wanting to start a world war MacArthur retorted emphatically: "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting . . . But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available...