Word: chillfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Antarctic last week blew a chill and unexpected wind, clutching with its frosty fingers the hillsides and greening fields of coffee-rich Brazil. Brazil's coffeegrowers have learned to live with the danger of frost in June or July -it is now winter in the Southern Hemisphere-but the cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath...
Unquestionably the finest woman photographer of her time, she explored the chill patterned beauty of industrial processes for FORTUNE magazine, contributed to LIFE memorable picture essays on guerrilla warfare in Korea and the tragedy and triumph of India's bloody partition. In the '50s she faced a more personal ordeal when she found that Parkinson's disease was relentlessly robbing her of muscular control. She slowed the progress of her malady with hours of exercises each day for years; the disease has at last been brought under control by brain surgery...
...House of Commons clock ticked toward starting time for the great debate, there were only two empty seats in the jammed, expectant chamber. The first was filled, with four minutes to spare, by Harold Macmillan, who sat down stiffly on the government's front bench, looking as chill and wan as his effigy at Madame Tussaud...
...moment is exquisitely interpreted and profoundly affecting, but the rest of the film is cold. However, the chill is deliberate. It counterfeits the frigid region of unbeing inhabited by the hero. It forces the spectator to see the hero's life from an infinite distance, with an infinite impersonality. The experience is uncanny. It makes the moviegoer feel almost like...
...common life will have a paramount influence not only on the lives of its member peoples but on the hopes of all peoples for peace and human brotherhood." So saying, he flew off for a four-day visit to London, where warming winds were already blowing. Remembering the chill atmosphere surrounding the last Diefenbaker visit, one Canadian civil servant remarked discreetly, "It was cold in February...