Word: chillness
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Tantamount to Heresy. By the time a chill rain ended the fighting on the fourth day, I.R.A. leaders were claiming that their cause had been strengthened. Their strategy is to force Faulkner into a spiral of violence leading to suspension of the Ulster government and a return to direct rule by London for the first time in 50 years; finally, they hope, it would lead to a political settlement between London and Dublin...
...body of U.S. scholars who are strongly sympathetic to the Maoist experiment in China (see EDUCATION). Chou was at his best, showing genuine private warmth toward the students, but public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit of the world at large, Chou turned on the chill. He reeled off China's basic positions: that its sovereignty over Taiwan must be recognized, that the U.S. treaty with the Nationalists is "illegal, null and void," that Peking alone must represent China in the United Nations, that the U.S. must withdraw not only from the "dirty...
...bitter chill has settled over the U.S. academic job market as financially squeezed schools and colleges find themselves turning out more teachers than they can afford to hire. In Germany, things are the other way round: the booming economy's demand for technical experts has created a shortage of high school science and math teachers. To education planners in the German state of Hamburg, the contrast was opportune. Rather than train more pedagogues by a slow, expensive expansion of their highly elite university system, the officials decided simply to import part of the U.S. surplus. The results were flabbergasting...
...polio, typhus and smallpox, which once ravaged entire communities. They are very nearly innocent in contrast to the more familiar and lethal cancer, heart disease, V.D. and automobile and other accidents. Perhaps it is not the destructiveness of the recent blights and diseases but their exoticism that arouses a chill of sheer human vulnerability...
Atop 5,820-ft. Mount Ulu Kali, the tropic air turns chill at night and lights from the distant capital of Kuala Lumpur glitter like diamonds. But visitors to the new 200-room Genting Highlands Hotel could hardly care less about the breathtaking view. Since the resort opened in May, thousands of eager customers have driven up a misty, winding mountain road for a headier kind of excitement-gambling in Malaysia's first legalized casino...