Word: chilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early last month when she arrived, late one afternoon, a chill wind was blowing a gale out of the east. The clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...
...public could even troop through Mr. Morgan's study, with its Bellini and Memling paintings on the walls, its desk ready to write a letter or sign a check at, its fire neatly laid for the next chill night. Nothing was said about coughing, but Library guards looked as if they could spot a soiled thumb a mile...
...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
Shortly before the stroke of twelve one night last week 300 people were enjoying a movie in Chillán's National Theatre. Suddenly, above the screen voices, came an ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance...
...only had Chillán been destroyed; the full force of the quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside...