Word: chillness
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...experts suggested that the greatest danger to the babies during their ordeal had been cold. Mexican doctors speculated that dying adults in the wreckage near them had shielded the infants from the chill and passed on the margin of warmth necessary for survival. In any case, said Dina Villanueva Garcia, chief of the neonatology department of Juarez Hospital, "it was extraordinary that they survived." In all, about 15 infants and 166 adults had been rescued at Juarez Hospital by week's end, and two babies had been rescued at another hospital after nearly nine days of entombment...
This dramatic split between poetry and social causes was reinforced by the readers' selections of poems. One would have hoped that the "Big Chill" generation's perspective on poetry might have produced meatier selections than the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." But, designed to appeal to an audience new to poetry readings, the selections often instead resembled what WBCN's Charles Laquidara called "that stuff I hated in high school...
Especially in the first few weeks of freshman year, our home state plagues us, putting a chill on every budding relationship. Personally, I'd like to dump Garden State toxic waste all over the next person who uses that "What exit?" line on me again...
Both the warning in the publication, the HLS Adviser, and the letter to the 119 students, have raised charges from law students that the administration is trying to chill political dissent on campus. They charge, in addition, that both actions are unconstitutional and inconsistent with the principles taught in the Law School's classrooms...
...temperature reached a stifling 108 degrees in parts of Los Angeles last week, but there was still a noticeable chill in the area. All along the California coast, doors and windows were bolted shut. Hardware stores experienced a run on security items, and weapons dealers reported a booming business. The pervasive fear had been aroused by the latest foray of the so-called Night Stalker, the serial killer who entered houses stealthily and seemingly at random, attacking and sometimes killing the occupants. Anxiety subsided Saturday when police at last arrested a suspect...