Word: chillness
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...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...
...exclude the PLO because it found that group's activities objectionable. The GSA, too, sought to corner the market of ideas--in this case on homosexuality. In pushing for an investigation of the center Pattullo heads in response to his airing of views they deplored, the GSA threatened to chill the speech of their opponents. Who wouldn't think twice about speaking out if declaring one's views meant laying one's academic work and professional affiliates open to allegation...
...chill sentiment for a freeze of weapons at the present levels, Reagan announced his support of a Senate resolution, which the White House helped draft, sponsored by Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington and Republican John Warner of Virginia. Although it uses the word freeze, the Jackson-Warner proposal would place no restraints on new weapons until the Soviets and Americans agree on a mutual reduction of armaments to equal levels. This would allow, among other things, the U.S. to proceed with the deployment of new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe in order to counter the Soviets' present...
Lillie Hamilton can look out the back window of her boxy clapboard house in Mink Branch, Ky., and see the family business, a small coal mine burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder...
Undaunted by the chill, the Tigers never perspired either, because Harvard collapsed quickly. "We just came out cold, and they took advantage of us," Harvard Co-captain Brad Martin said...