Word: chillness
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...violet eyes look as blue and forbidding as arctic ice. Much has been written about those eyes, but it has not been noted how quickly they can move up and down the Fahrenheit scale, from a sultry 85 or so to a frigid ten below zero. Some of the chill is shyness. When she was younger she used to go to parties and hide in the shadow of her second husband, Michael Wilding. One night Humphrey Bogart told her to sit by herself and make people come to her. She did-and people now hover around her-but a trace...
Takeoff was from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It was perilously near the wind-chill factor of 65° F below -the point at which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest...
...Reagan Administration has already signaled its dissatisfaction with the act, and particularly its tendency through loose wording to cast a chill over the willingness of U.S. businessmen to push into foreign markets and thereby help boost U.S. exports...
...honor guard ranked the South Lawn, green with spring's first surge. Battle streamers from Lexington to Viet Nam snapped on their staffs in the chill flurries. Trumpets soared and the mellow growl of trombones echoed down the Mall: God Save the Queen. It was a moment of dignity, in a nation that craves...
...Hartford Stage Company, has boldly chosen to set his stage so sparely that some of the claustrophobic density of the drama is diluted. But he has distanced his characters from each other in their most intimate encounters so that what playgoers feel most acutely is the frosty chill around their dead souls...