Word: shuddered
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...some ninepins, wake up, and suddenly everyone around them is “tweeting.” But then, unlike Rip, they decide to join in. Anyone who’s ever read the tweets of people like Senator Chuck Grassley, an adult who should know better, can justifiably shudder. Don’t they realize that the only people who actually spell the phrase “see you later” as “CUL8R” are those undercover cops who pose as 14-year-olds to catch online predators? These sad Twitter feeds...
...Movie buffs might appreciate this, because when Beck gets rolling on a particularly emotional riff, when the tears glisten and the shoulders shudder, Paddy Chayefsky, the great leftist playwright, looks like a prophet. He's the man who coined the phrase that, according to Luntz, is the rare thing Americans can agree on. He gave the line to Howard Beale, the mad anchorman at the center of the dark satire Network...
...days isn’t that much shorter than a week, and that incoming freshmen probably don’t notice the difference, and that there’s probably still an overwhelming amount of ice cream, we still remain highly concerned. As the academic year begins, we shudder at the dangers lying ahead for Harvard’s poorly oriented, unlucky Class...
...saved--children suffering from cancer, for example, treated through radiotherapy machines provided by the agency. The most dissatisfying moment of my life, of course, was when the Iraq war was launched. That hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives on the basis of fiction, not facts, makes me shudder...
...especially damaging right now, when job competition is fierce. When a very prominent woman takes on a commitment - say, as governor of a state, whose voters are supposed to be the ones who decide if she's no longer able to be effective - and then walks away, a shudder goes through every venue where women fight to assert their rights and affirm their commitment. How much easier does this make it for prospective employers, even unconsciously, to pause before hiring or promoting a woman with young children...