Word: chillness
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...newest structure in town is Maranatha Baptist Church, result of a schism precipitated in the Plains Baptist Church by a racial dilemma in the wake of Jimmy's election. The newest organic matter seems to be a small garden given by the citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...
...without admitting past errors, it opens itself up to suits from passed over white workers like Weber. But if the employer admits past discrimination, it invites suits for substantial back pay from nonwhites. Allowing the decision to stand, argued the Justice Department in its petition, "can be expected to chill voluntary affirmative-action programs throughout the country." The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also disagrees with the Weber decision. The same day the high court decided to review the case, the EEOC announced final guidelines designed to encourage voluntary affirmative action...
Unfortunately, the paradisical setting of April Sound was marred by a demonic cold front sweeping the southwest. "On Friday during the sponsors' tournament the chill factor was seven degrees so we only played four holes," Ftizgibbons recounts in a taut voice. "We never got to practice...
...several reasons for the peace talks stalemate is another temporary chill in relations between Jerusalem and Washington. The Israelis are worried about what they feel is a pro-Arab, or at least a pro-Egyptian, tilt on the part of the U.S. As a prime example, they cite an October visit to Amman by Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who gave Jordan's King Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East...
...glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every page...