Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first chill of winter swept across South Africa last week, a few white families braved the weather to relax on King's Beach, a strip along the Indian Ocean in the eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth. Parents reclined under striped umbrellas as black maids took the children to play in the waves. Not far away, a colored (mixed race) man, his wife and two small children enjoyed a picnic on the sand. For a brief time last month, such racially mixed scenes were countenanced by law at Port Elizabeth, after the state Supreme Court struck down local city ordinances...
...general there was the feeling that we are living out the extensions of the '60s, the better part. There is a definite root that can be traced. We were all engaged in the present moment. The Big Chill was nothing more than a Hollywood disgrace. There is no way that a group of friends who had been engaged in the politics of the '60s would have gotten back together and [made] no mention of today's politics. --Interview by Jennifer Griffin
...viruses that have come to light this year have been relatively benign, like the strain currently making the rounds of the public computer networks that causes infected machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." But the epidemic is giving the computer industry a chill. The virus that struck Macintosh owners last month was apparently spread through a program called FreeHand which is published by Seattle-based Aldus Corp. FreeHand is the first commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase...
...union of the computer and the compact disc puts the world on a silver platter. -- "Viruses" give the software industry a chill...
Crisis should put a chill in anyone who has a habit of nightly picking up strangers at bars in major cities, or regularly frequents prostitutes. These are the people at whom the book should be aimed. As for the rest of us, we must make haste to save lives, even if they are not our own. Or sexual behavior should be cautious, yet not terrified; our political behavior should be swift, yet not tyrannical...