Word: tremors
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...models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over every younger model that 80-year-old Sculptor Maillol brings home...
...Handed a lemon with the information that it was a peach, one subject bit in juicily and chewed with never a tremor...
...revolution of nihilism, which Rauschning previously treated as a German manifestation, he now calls the last tremor of the 500-year-long revolt of the masses. Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the masses in the old order while it sapped the faith of the old order in itself. Hitler, himself a man of the masses, had the political genius to perceive that the revolution is everywhere because the masses are everywhere. He did not make the revolution, he used...
...above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door and I could see a slight tremor come over her, in her eyes and ruffles and the feathers...
...days old, and its westward impact was heavy upon him. During the first fogged days of battle (see p. 19), he and his military advisers wondered whether their profound dependence on the British fleet for protection in the Atlantic was misplaced. British successes later eased that fear, but a tremor remained. For the Allies, Washington speeded export of the newest U. S. fighting planes. Latest, possibly the fastest (over 425 m.p.h.), was a beetle-like, twin-engined, multi-gunned Grumman fighter designed for the Navy and offered last week to the French...