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  • A May 12 cover story in the Washington Post reported that, "At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs," which prompted one heebie-jeebie stricken U.S. official to wonder, "At what point do you reach the nuclear tipping point?"

    Daniel Holloway: The Frakking Nukes 2008

  • Maybe not the most erudite way of putting it, but nothing to get all heebie-jeebie about.

    Think Progress » CNN’s Glenn Beck Describes Himself As ‘Mr. Oreo Cookie’ On Martin Luther King Day 2007

  • Very "Tales from the Crypt" style heebie-jeebie stories, but pretty good, all things considered.

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? dravengodvamp 2005

  • I swallowed my terror and wiped my arm clean with only a minimum of heebie-jeebie shivers.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • I swallowed my terror and wiped my arm clean with only a minimum of heebie-jeebie shivers.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • I swallowed my terror and wiped my arm clean with only a minimum of heebie-jeebie shivers.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • I swallowed my terror and wiped my arm clean with only a minimum of heebie-jeebie shivers.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • On the long overnight heebie-jeebie flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to London she had progressively lost muscular strength in her legs, and by the time the substitute aircraft landed safely at Heathrow the next morning the whole of her lower body felt numb.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • The plot of Scorsese's Shutter Island curdles with each new heebie-jeebie encounter.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • There's the apocalypse, a-and the back from the grave, and the blah blah blah blah blah, and by the time you're finally standing there in that beautiful expensive white dress you've dreamed about ever since you became human, he's gets all heebie-jeebie and decides, "you know, I'd rather just go steady." "

    Buffy Quote of the Week 2006

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