Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time went on, exceptions, dissents, second thoughts were certain to chill the first fervent breath of approval. And time would indeed be required, at least ten years, perhaps 15, to convert the economic-union dream into working reality. A few weeks ago few would have predicted that the dream was feasible at all. After last week's discussion, however, Harold Macmillan's vision could be rated a distinct possibility...
When Wolfe was at home, he thirsted for the far cities of the world; when abroad, he longed for home. From London in November he wrote: "If you have sat in the parlor reeking with its gravedamp chill, if then you go out into the steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion...
...series, Lewis Eliot has lifted himself from the pit of shabby genteel poverty, taking a fling at law and teaching, and played the good Samaritan to a headstrong younger brother. When the present novel opens in 1938. Eliot is trudging home to a wife with a "schizoid chill." He has married her out of the weakest virtue, pity, but since he himself has never surfaced emotionally, he can bring her no love. In nagging misery, she commits suicide...
September weather in Moscow is mild, but for Indonesia's President Sukarno there was evidently a chill in the air. "I come from ... a warm climate where it is not so cold as it is here," he told Soviet bigwigs, "but . . . your smiles have warmed me." The little President of the big and uncommitted republic of Southeast Asia flashed a friendly grin as he skipped through the Distinguished Visitors Routine (TIME, Sept. 17), but the grin was full of ambiguity. At a mass meeting in Moscow, sandwiched between effusive compliments, was a message that must have sounded strange...
Last week, when the chips were down, National Leaguers began to wonder just what class they were really in. Out on the field the front-running Milwaukee Braves and the World Champion Dodgers came all unstrung in their late-season fight for the flag. September was suddenly chill in the stands, and the voice of fair-weather fans cracked into silence. Their best teams had gone back to the bushes...