Word: tremors
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When the show business guests broke the don't-tell rule, some New Frontiersmen expected a tremor of presidential wrath. But no: a White House aide put out the word that "the President is not upset about the story." Like many ordinary citizens, John and Jackie Kennedy look at show business personalities through star-struck eyes, judge them by more lenient standards than those applied to lesser folk...
Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor "like a drunken man" (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah "walked naked and barefoot three years" (Isaiah 20: 3). Many of their Jewish contemporaries were skeptical of the prophets-and some people are skeptical still. Literary critics may see Isaiah as nothing more than a wild Hebrew bard, and psychoanalysts may explain the posturings and mutters of Hosea as the upshot of repressed sexual feelings...
...have been killed or injured. Though every available rescue unit rushed to the stricken area, some of the villages were so remote that survivors huddled in the ruins for days before medicine and supplies reached them. A dozen nations offered Iran immediate aid. Within 28 hours after the first tremor, U.S. Air Force planes from Europe were landing in Iran with aid that included a zoo-bed Army field hospital, two helicopter rescue teams, 1,000 tons of food...
...earthquake that hit Naples, 20 miles away, caused a slight tremor at Ravello, and Jackie quickly sent a message of sympathy to the Neapolitan victims. "I am deeply distressed by the destruction caused by the earthquake in Southern Italy," she wrote. "The past two weeks have reaffirmed my admiration and affection for the people of this part of the world and filled me with gratitude for all their kindness and courtesy. That they, who give so much in heart and spirit, should suffer loss of life and home is truly a calamity. I pray that all who have suffered...
...lets in enough liquid nitrogen to drop the tip temperature to zero or -10° C. This knocks out the nerves, but does not destroy them. He asks the patient to raise an arm, or leg, or both: if the patient has full control of his limbs, with no tremor remaining, the tip is in the right place...