I shuddered at the findings and attendant World Cancer Research Fund quotes, hazily remembered stopping drinking for a while after last year's Million Women Study, which showed that even a small glass could help rearrange your breast cells, then calculated that I have quite a few social occasions coming up and that denial may well be the only way forward.
"They can't be letting her go through that," shuddered Nancy.
The royal family was marvellous but these festivities had better not cost too much, said one villager, recorded as "Nurse, female, 50", explaining: "People are not in the mood".West Hoathly was reliably monarchist, the file records, with anti-republican sentiment boosted by recent American elections ("Fancy having Jimmy Carter," a villager shuddered).
During the 2000s they had mostly prospered on their own, and their partners shuddered at the thought of being subsumed into giant bureaucracies.
But on February 13th the process shuddered to a halt on the insistence of Conservative bosses.
Global stockmarkets shuddered this week on worries about the faltering economic recovery and its impact on corporate profits.
After his bilious journey "Up North", he has now winced and shuddered his way through a different kind of country: the "season", the social calendar of the upper classes.
On January 4th dismal jobs figures seemed to confirm what many feared: a downturn is at hand.Stockmarkets shuddered on news that the jobless rate had jumped to 5% in December, and that the private sector had shed workers for the first time since 2003.
Many upper-class Chileans shuddered at him: the son of a customs agent from Valparaíso who barked out poor grammar in a high breaking voice, or else mumbled in a whisper.Yet a majority in Chile's Congress, and probably most of its citizens, backed the coup.
They shuddered at those plans' skimpy benefits or high deductibles, and thought: quite a lot of those people are outsiders who do not realise it.
In 1976, a year after a uniform passport was first proposed, Britain shuddered at the suggested shade of delicate lilac.
