Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the clatter of hammers, the whine of saws, the growl of a tractor shattered the Pole's chill silence. Under the skilled hands of 24 U.S. Navy Seabees, a tiny community of six multihued polar huts was rising from the snow-the home, for many months to come, of 18 American scientists and Navymen...
Speaking of Murder (by Audrey and William Roos) will raise no goose-pimples or chill no blood, but it has some incidental virtues. It concerns an English blonde who, during a lengthy visit in Connecticut, has done in the wife of the house from a desire to marry the husband. But the husband has married a movie star instead, and the undiscouraged blonde is now ready to have a go at the second wife by suffocating her in a built-in vault in the library...
...MURRAY of our Los Angeles bureau had a few chill moments of his own before he asked Shotputter Parry O'Brien to hold still long enough for this week's cover portrait, by New Mexican Artist Peter Hurd. It was the final week of intensive training before O'Brien took off for Australia and the Olympics, and Jim knew that the big shotputter could get mad as a wet bear when anything interfered with his training. What he did not know was that O'Brien also liked to dabble with paint. "He couldn't spare...
...Clarissa, who was suffering with a troublesome wisdom tooth. As he sat by the bedside, Eden suddenly began to shiver. His temperature soared to 105½°. Doctors put him to bed on the spot, just across the corridor from his wife, and announced he had suffered "a feverish chill." Three days later, Eden was back at his desk, but some colleagues claim he has never been the same since...
Fuel oil for domestic and industrial use was cut by one-third, and many houses, apartment buildings and offices were already feeling the chill. The famed oil-burning "Blue Train" that runs from Paris to the Riviera was canceled-setting off a cry of anguish from Riviera hotelkeepers, who estimate tourist traffic is already off 75%. Housewives caught the panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded...