Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable life in their midst...
...writer of] the Marshall article, with classic incisiveness and clarity, has assembled data with an inescapable meaning-America now enters the arena of history on her own. All the chill introspection which attends the individual at the death of a cooperative and sympathetic parent who, wisely or unwisely, consciously or unconsciously, shielded him from the full weight of the world, comes home to the heart and mind. America has lost its mother. . . . Great Britain has been that . . . and she has evoked the devotion, the suspicion, the resentment which fits into the personal relationship between a powerful, strong-willed parent...
...ones huddle together In time for the evening scare To chill their juvenile marrow And curl their innocent hair...
...left before sunup the next morning. Though the moon was still shining brightly on the wings of airplanes on the field, and the mountain air was chill, a thousand people were on hand to bid him goodbye. As the Sacred Cow labored off the runways, Harry Truman was worrying a little. Mexico's President Aleman was to visit him next month, and he wondered if his busy fellow Norte-Americanos would take time to match the hospitality he had encountered south of the border...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...