Word: chillingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wind-chill factors turned scores of cities into veritable frostbite wards. From Michigan to the Carolinas, the cold became so severe that generating difficulties forced widespread cutbacks in electric power. At least 16 deaths were attributed to the weather...
Finally, bundled in an overcoat and scarf against an early-morning chill, he boarded Air Force One and began his journey, which will take him a third of the way around the world and into 1978. Accompanying him were 200 reporters, cameramen and TV technicians on two chase planes and an official party of 13 on the presidential jet, including Wife Rosalynn, Brzezinski, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his wife Grace...
...chill fog swirled around the Bay Area, these officials let off steam by calling for a more comprehensive?and costly ?federal policy to uplift the cities and fight urban unemployment. They emphasized the stickiness of that problem, shown by the fact that unemployment last month slipped only fractionally, from 7% to 6.9%, although the number of Americans at work soared...
...sides met again at the King David for a larger, more formal dinner after Sadat and Begin had delivered their speeches to the Knesset. By then there was a slight chill of disappointment around the table; the Israelis were disappointed that Sadat had not offered them something new. The President and the Premier, seated side by side, conversed diffidently; Sadat finally sought Dayan's attention but discovered he was seated on the one-eyed Foreign Minister's blind side. In friendly fashion, Sadat literally turned Dayan around to face him. They started a new conversation about continuing lines...
Konrád's second novel again deals with a civil servant, an unnamed city planner for a provincial town in an unspecified Eastern European country. However, this time the clients are not bizarre, ruined people but buildings, factories and streets. The abstraction of architecture casts a chill over the planner's meditations. When he looks at an old man, he peers beyond individual details to "make out the final chapters of Eastern European history, its way of life down to the last coffin nail, its untold mental anguish, its ill-concealed hind thoughts, the well-tended museum...