Word: chillness
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...weapons capable of striking up to 70 miles. On the diplomatic front, after a visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to East Berlin, the Soviets and the East Germans warned that relations between the two Germanys would suffer "serious damage" once the NATO missiles were installed. Against this chill blast, Reagan sent the protesters a message that fell mainly on deaf ears. Said he: "It is not the U.S. and NATO which threaten peace. We have no intermediate-range missiles in Europe and we're willing to forgo them entirely...
...Thursday, more than a million South Koreans gathered in a chill rain for an emotional memorial service in Seoul's huge Sixteenth of May Plaza. On a long altar surrounded by thousands of white and yellow chrysanthemums, 17 incense urns were placed in front of photographs of the deceased. Later, military pallbearers wearing white masks, a traditional mark of respect for the dead, led the procession to the cemetery. Representatives from 47 countries were present, including a seven-member U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. In a trembling voice, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Sang Hyup...
...that's hard to beat." She adds, "It's only frustrating when the kids know more than you do." In Hollywood, where game playing is sometimes the most exigent art form, Trivial Pursuit and its cousin Silver Screen are monster hits. During the filming of The Big Chill, the entire cast became addicted to the game, playing it night and day. Says Footloose Producer Craig Zadan, "There's not a person in the entertainment business who hasn't heard of the game, played it or been hooked...
...shoot down the next violator of its airspace) led to a rounding up of the usual suspects: Soviet feelings of inferiority, hypersensitivity, paranoia, suspiciousness, what have you. These explanations do not satisfy. For what was so stunning about the Soviet reponse was its lack of feeling. What sent a chill through the world (as even more ruthless Soviet behavior like the invasion of Afghanistan had not) was the undertone of stony incomprehension in the Soviet response to pleas for some acknowledgment of responsibility. One sensed the absence of a certain faculty: a heart grown so cold that it had lost...
President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell...