Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...
Winter's first major assault, a vast cold air mass from the Arctic, swept across the nation this week. Florida felt the chill fringes of it. In Grand Forks, N. Dak., the temperature dropped to 17° below zero. Around the stark deserted tipples of the coal mines from West Virginia to southern Illinois, a northwest wind whooped. John L. Lewis had a new ally...
...teachers were warmed by parkas, winter coats, ski pants and the comforting thought that most St. Paul citizens sympathized with them. Governor Edward Thye had said that teachers' salaries were too low. Parents living near the schools invited pickets in for a cup of coffee to take the chill away. Some students turned out to cheer the strikers on. Of course nobody tried to crash the picket line...
...chill shadow of coal, food, housing and other shortages lengthened over England, Tory hopes for victory at the polls had risen proportionately. But last week, in two by-elections, the Tories got a jarring setback...
...between quick, bright blazes. It lacks, too, the humanity that a Shakespeare could fuse with horror; Webster's tale of the rich, widowed young Duchess who remarries in secret, fearing her rapacious brothers' wrath, and is stalked and finally strangled by them, has an air of chill, a sense of night...