Word: tremors
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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...
...whole world stopped breathing for a moment over his fall," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It was journalistic hyperbole, but it caught, more vividly than any other seismograph, the tremor of emotion that ran around the globe as Douglas MacArthur was ordered down from his lofty post...