Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff restrictions and, to the sugar growers of Luzon, this means that in eight years the sugar will rot on the waterfronts and even the brand new Constitution...
Frenchmen felt a chill. The outbreak, the first riot since liberation, showed that deep and dangerous passions lurked under the surface of coalition politics...
Lampy added his own spice to the brew with an ill-fated beauty feast that needs little rhashing. B. Rose came out on the odd end of that one, as did Chill Williams in the Dramatic Club's sorry hunt for masculine pulchritude...
...chill autumn twilight, Pedro Pisani, citizen of Buenos Aires, sat on the sidewalk before his three-room suburban home, sipped unsugared mate (South American tea), and considered his lot. He was worried about the future. Argentine-born son of Italian immigrants, father of three, mild-mannered Pedro had worked for 20 years or more in the offices of Gath & Chaves, a big downtown department store. Until two years ago he earned $50 a month. Since then, Juan Perón's election-time decrees (and the store's voluntary raises) had upped his pay to $63. Still...
...found what he was looking for: bone tools and stone artifacts, exposed along the sidewall of a deep trench which carries Mexico City's sewage to the lowlands. According to Dr. de Terra, the soil in which the bones and stones were found was formed under a chill and rainy climate; it is his conjecture that this rainy period coincided with the last great glacial period in North America...