Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Rome's Viminale Palace (seat of the Government) a huge crowd of paper-hatted, overalled workers and homeless war veterans shivered patiently in the first chill of approaching winter. Inside, spokesmen sought to air their grievance: 30,000 laborers had been discharged that morning from public-works projects...
...morning, darkness still cloaked the wilderness-rimmed U.S. Army airfield at Stephenville, Newfoundland. Flying conditions, however, were excellent. There was a 5,000-foot ceiling and ten-mile visibility. A steady, eight-mile flow of chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
Secretary of State Byrnes saw and stated the importance to world peace of a revived, united Germany. He failed to emphasize the fact that a revived, united Germany would only be endurable within the matrix of a revived, united Europe. Anything short of that sends a cold chill through the veins of Europeans sick to death of the monotonous regularity with which German revival and unity end up in German militarism and aggression...
...their cut-&-dried convention in Albany, the Democratic bosses brayed that their party holds the sole patent on liberalism. The delegates, most of whom went to Albany in a nervous chill of defeatism, were warmed by the appearance of Eleanor Roosevelt as keynoter, gave her an affectionate ovation, cheered her as she struck another campaign chord: the G.O.P. is the party of "backward conservatives...
...Albany. His man for the Senate now was 50-year-old Irving M. Ives, a veteran of World War I, majority leader of the State Assembly, dean of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Dewey's nod to Ives put a fatal chill on the boosters for Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan (TIME, Sept. 2). A respected legislator, with a good record on labor relations, Mr. Ives grasped his opportunity gratefully...