Word: tremoring
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...morning, 58 villages were destroyed and more than 5,000 of their inhabitants were killed by a massive earthquake. In addition, 2,000 were seriously injured and 20,000 left homeless. The tremor, registering seven points (out of ten) on the Richter scale, was Iran's worst since 1968, when nearly 12,000 perished in the northeastern province of Khurasan...
Most of the victims died in their sleep. In the town of Qir, 37 early morning worshipers were killed when a mosque collapsed. "I was saying my prayers when a slight tremor shook me," recalled Safar Keshtkar, a 41-year-old farmer. "I had hardly finished when the whole roof collapsed with a shock like a bomb explosion." Keshtkar's wife and four children were buried beneath the ruins of their mud-brick home...
...more than a scribble of outrage on a wall that separated us from the thousand outrages of the war and a University administration that was hurrying to stay even step with the thundering war machine. We believed that we had positively torn that wall down, but more likely, the tremor was only within us--a shudder at the sudden demystification of University liberalism. For that momentary alteration of power relations within the University--and such violent acts as carrying Dean Archie Epps out the door--a price was paid. Certainly not a great price, by comparison with that...
Alfred E. Vellucci, Mayor of Cambridge, said yesterday, "the majority of the people of Cambridge know there's a problem; they fear and tremor that. it might strike their own kids; and somebody should do something about...
...alive, it is the novels that really evoke awe. This British Nabokov, out with his literary butterfly net-is there an idea on the wind that he can't ensnare and turn into a jaunty, funny, shocking piece of fiction? There have already been the international spy thriller (Tremor of Intent), the scatological novel (Enderby), the population-explosion novel (The Wanting Seed), the Third World satire (Devil of a State), the historical novel (Nothing Like the Sun), and the futuristic novel (A Clockwork Orange). Now comes MF, the biggest send-up of them all, on Claude Levi-Strauss...