Word: chillness
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...Come quickly. I've just killed my wife ." The scene, and the supplicant huddled against the chill of a Parisian dawn last week as he pounded on a colleague's door were equally bizarre. Close by the doorway towered the stone walls of the 186-year-old Ecole Normale Superieure, an elite graduate school for the best and the brightest students of France. The agitated man in robe and pajamas banging at the door with his dire tidings was no less prestigious: Louis Althusser, 62, among the diminishing survivors of the country's great postwar intellectual...
...monsignor looked at the cold downpour that greeted Pope John Paul II upon his arrival at the Cologne airport Nov. 15 and said lightheartedly, "Luther's revenge at last." The chill was more than meteorological. The land of Martin Luther offered John Paul the coolest reception...
...time it stood 45 points above the pre-election close. Moreover, an unprecedented 84.1 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Prices later slipped back as banks boosted the interest rates they charge their prime corporate customers by a full point, to 15½%. But the chill of rising rates, which nearly always push stocks down, was short-lived, and the market resumed its climb last week. Almost all kinds of issues rose, but the big gainers were energy and defense companies, which stand to benefit from Reagan's plans to speed deregulation of domestic...
...inflation. Two weeks ago, Schmidt decided on an $8 billion cut in 1981 spending, which will now be just 4.1% above the $114.4 billion 1980 budget. He also pulled out of a NATO pledge to raise military spending by 3% annually for 15 years-a move that may chill his reception this week in Washington, where he is due to arrive on a long-planned visit. Instead, Bonn will increase its defense budget, now $18 billion, by just 1.75% next year...
...dismalness were a saleable commodity, November would have cornered the market. Season of chill winds, bleak landscapes, barren fields and patches of muc spattered snow, it's time for the sporting world to move indoors...