Word: chillfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle virtually reversed their earlier campaign strategies and styles. Interim President Alain Poher had conducted an aloof, deliberately understated campaign during the first round of voting, basking in the premature warmth of his discovery by the country. Last week Poher was scrambling frantically across France and, feeling a chill, shouting to audiences with such ferocity that he lost most of his voice. Ex-Premier Georges Pompidou, by contrast, was far more relaxed in Round 2, affecting the role of statesman, visiting only a few provincial towns in a casual, confident gesture of no blesse oblige. The switch in styles reflected...
...will probably disappoint most Western readers. Wispy implications substitute for concrete clues. The end is not solution but dissolution. Yet the hand of a novelist of quality is omnipresent. The book is not unlike a Greene entertainment or a serious Simenon; one never feels too far removed from the chill that comes from brushing up against the raincoat tails of true mystery-the real nature of human experience...
...lawyer defending companies in antitrust cases, he has flailed conglomerates for evils ranging from excessive economic concentration to "human dislocation." Proud that Republicans "have historically been vigorous enforcers of antitrust," McLaren is becoming the most active-and visible-trustbuster since the days of Teddy Roosevelt; his broadsides have helped chill investor enthusiasm for multimarket companies...
Shouting "Fire!" at the top of their lungs, the black guerrillas swept through Straight Hall, Cornell's student union, rousing 30 frightened parents from their beds and sending both them and 40 employees into the chill morning air. While some blacks guarded the entrances with fire hoses, others barged into the campus radio station, grabbed a microphone and proclaimed the seizure as a protest against Cornell's "racist attitudes...
...chill, leaden afternoon nine years ago, Ted Williams came to bat for the last time in the final Boston Red Sox home game. As he had done so often in 19 storied seasons, Williams stroked a towering home run. Preferring to leave baseball as he had played it-with unsurpassed style-he retired on the spot...