Word: tremoring
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...taken straight, would have given the stock market a case of jitters; only two weeks before, word of lackluster early-May sales had helped drive the Dow-Jones industrial average to a nine-month low of 864.14. Last week, Wall Street took the nicely sweetened pill with barely a tremor. And the Dow-Jones average closed the week at 897.04, up 20.15, which represented the biggest week-long rise since last July...
...freckle-faced daredevils notices that a freckle-faced girl on a bicycle is noticing him. Soon he peels away to investigate-and a fearful tremor of change goes through a world so far snugly limited to boys, boards and simple physical prowess. Girls are the tribe's natural enemy...
Bulging Eye. What seems like doodling at first sight soon appears to have its own peculiar, illogical order, a system of delusions. His shock treatment is conveyed by a line that is like a delirium tremor; once snared, the eye lopes along in a crazy rhythm, here surprised by a prominent nose, there by a bulging eye, now tripping over a clodhopper of a shoe, now stumbling onto a wretchedly knobby knee, all in a never-never land of ambiguity. Having attacked the canons of classical art, he now seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality...
...been almost asphyxiated by unchallenged Democratic rule in metropolitan areas. For the ultimate justification of the American political system is that the party in opposition, whether Democratic or Republican, should be an alternate government capable of taking over -as Eisenhower Republicans did from Truman Democrats-with hardly a tremor. In last week's elections, it was mainly the adaptable, nondoctrinaire Republican who upheld that ideal...
...routine familiar to anyone who has ever watched a hospital drama on TV. This time the action was nerve-rackingly real, the patient the President of the U.S. Despite all the advance assurances that there was little danger to Lyndon Johnson's life, a tremor of apprehension rippled around the world from the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. And in fact for four hours and ten minutes, from the moment when the President was anesthetized until he fully wakened at 11 a.m., the awesome powers and responsibilities of his office devolved upon Vice President Hubert Humphrey...