Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness Eisenhower suffered on Monday had earlier been described as a "chill"; the change in diagnosis came after an examination made yesterday by the specialists. They reported that the blockage "has produced a slight difficulty in speaking," though "reading, writing and reasoning are not affected...
...Internal Revenue Service cast its cold eye on the nation's expense account economy, and millions of U.S. taxpayers felt the chill. Henceforth, the collectors revealed last week, each taxpayer must list on Page One of Form 1040 the amount that his employer paid him for business expenses, and support the figure with a list summarizing total outlays for business meals, travel, entertainment, telephone, etc. If the expenses seem too big for the taxpayer's salary and profession, the auditors can demand a lunch-by-lunch, trip-by-trip account, force the taxpayer to pay income taxes...
...read in Life magazine that the government bombards animals with gamma rays. They imprison monkeys and mice in cramped cages. They starve cats to death and chill dogs in freezing tanks of water. I ask you--do such practices promote human welfare...
...first afternoon at the Point, with his grey hat pulled low against a chill drizzle, Ike plodded up and down the sidelines of Michie Stadium, watching the Army plebe football team play Colgate freshmen. "I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Let's put the cork in the bottle," he exclaimed as a Colgate back cracked through for yardage. The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle. Next morning he fidgeted nervously outside the hotel waiting...
Potbellied and dripping, the new chairman of the Tory Party rose from Bright on's chill October sea last week and fired new hope in a Tory Party gathered for its annual conference and glumly reflecting on a dozen by-election setbacks since Suez. Chubby, puckish Viscount Hailsham, 50, only three weeks in office, delighted the delegates with his handshaking zeal, astounded them as he splashed into the ocean for early morning dips, moved them with shamelessly orotund oratory. "Britain is still recognizably a lion among nations," he roared. "I do not believe that we have been spared...