Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and German citizens who have done business with the Soviet Government, Slasher Churchill mentioned particularly "young Mr. [William Averell] Harriman," thrust home this characteristic conclusion: "All in turn have sought to clasp that clammy hand. All in turn have recoiled injured, infected or at least defiled by its chill, poisonous sweat. But there are plenty of simpletons left to be gulled or bribed...
Swaying their supple bodies violently, Coptic Christian priests followed their Archbishop up the aisle of St. George's Cathedral in Addis Ababa (New Flower), Abyssinian capital. The chill air, blue with incense, reeked with the smoke of native tallow candles, throbbed to wild strains. Cried the Archbishop, lifting high the crown, "God has anointed thee to rule with Justice...
...humble Japanese mountaineer one chill evening long ago was sitting close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over...
...Easter recess, when a party of us were joiting up to Chocorua in the most accomodating of all accommodation trains: "Parents suppose when they send their boys to Harvard that they are sending them to college. What they are really doing is sending them out into the world." The chill isolation of coming to a big college unknown and unfriended and remaining almost so (a thing that has been known to happen at Harvard) is virtually eliminated by the House Plan...
...could chill the blood of Budapest's bourgeoisie as quickly. Eleven years have passed since the pale violet-scented clerk Albert Cohen, Bela Kun in Hungarian, ruled Budapest for 133 bloody days, but nursemaids still frighten children with lurid tales of gutters red with blood, nuns and countesses falling before his firing squads, rich landowners tortured to death. Since his downfall in 1919 Bela Kun has held a minor office in Moscow's Foreign Propaganda bureau. He has appeared, plump, ugly flashily dressed, smelling of wood violet, in Portugal and Vienna only to be hustled...