Word: chillingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Britton and a clinic volunteer at an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Almost all elements of the right-to- life movement condemned the killings. But why? After all, the practical effect of such actions is not merely to put one baby killer out of business but to chill the entire practice of abortion in America. Surely during the real Holocaust it would have been "justifiable homicide" to kill a German camp guard, if that would have slowed the feeding of the gas chambers...
Promptly at 6 a.m., long before Southern California's chill and brooding morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen...
Assertions that the campaign was tainted by drug money had been circulating in U.S. government circles for months and added to a yearlong chill in Washington-Bogota relations. Last week's news from Bogota, said Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, was "the worst kind of information we could receive." He added that "if these accusations are true, it will definitely affect bilateral relations...
...reinforcements can arrive. But all sides within Rwanda worry about further bloodshed. Tutsis, who now control two-thirds of the country, especially hate the French for aiding what they consider a genocidal government in 1990. They call the French move "an act of war." While such threats chill the rest of Europe, TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas A. Sancton says France, fueled by public opinion, feels "a special mission" to curb bloodletting in French-speaking Rwanda and wants more than a defensive role...
Soon, for most of us, the loneliness is somewhat relieved, and the frenzied friend-making abates. It doesn't take much-- a few people from the entry way who don't have anything better to do than go see "The Big Chill" (or worse, Freshman Comedy Night)--and an end comes to the first week's embarrassing displays of plumage...