Word: tremoring
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...along the length of the 600-mile San Andreas fault is in their opinion inconceivable. Nor, they add, can anyone predict the time, place or magnitude of the quake with absolute certitude. In fact, one of the quake dates predicted by soothsayers, April 4, passed last week without a tremor. But neither scientific reassurances nor disappointments have much impact on the true believers. When radio stations reported that noted Caltech Seismologist Charles Richter was leaving the state in April, disaster rumors swelled anew-until Richter explained that he was only going away for a few days to attend a scientific...
...said Nora, the tremor cutting through her voice like a knife. "Someone turned that light off. I'm not doing any more." But when the circuit was fixed, Nora continued...
...with an angelic softness, a softness that matched her beauty. But not exactly. There was a slight shakiness underlying the musical quality of her speech. As if, throughout her life, she had shuddered to the slammings of a thousand different doors and now had permanently assimilated a barely perceptible tremor into her very expression...
Nora did not like the idea at all. Standing in the shadows at the side of the fire, she turned towards me. Her large dark eyes betrayed momentarily a bit of the tremor that creeps into her gentle voice. "How would you like to die in that bed," she asked, "and then sleep...
...partial improvement of some symptoms in every case, including some that were crippling in severity and had been neglected for years. The most dramatic improvement was displayed by patients with moderately severe disease. First they regained the ability to make voluntary movements, next their rigidity was relieved, and finally tremor decreased. Inability to speak, poor articulation, excessive sweating, weeping and urinary disorders were "strikingly improved," as were mental attitudes. Some patients who had been apathetic and vague showed an "awakening intellect" with better memory and alertness. Several who had not been able to get out of a wheelchair unaided...