Word: shuddered
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Despite the words of our 8th grade history books, the rich history of colonial Boston is not all tempestuous tea parties and triumphant Revere rides. Board the “Trolley of the Doomed” and be prepared to shiver and shudder as the deepest, darkest secrets of Boston’s earliest disease-ridden days are exposed. Don’t be surprised if New Haven suddenly seems a lot a less frightening...Departs every half hour from 7-9 p.m., all week long. Old Town Trolley stop #1, downtown Boston, $37. Reservations required...
...Thursday afternoon, when anyone watching TV news had to stop whatever they were doing and shudder. The giant, silver, Jiffy Pop balloon was climbing higher over Larimer County, Colorado, and on the ground a 10-year-old boy named Bradford Heene had told the sheriff that his little brother Falcon was inside. Falcon? Was some Greek narrative poet scripting this tragedy? Their father Richard longed to live large, a scientist, storm chaser, wife swapper, aspiring reality-TV star. He had built the vessel in the backyard; they called it his "flying saucer...
...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...