Word: chillness
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Shortly after 11 o'clock one night last week, two women and a 16-year-old girl slipped from a Youngstown, N.Y. dock into the black waters of Lake Ontario. Their mission: to swim the 32 miles across the chill, changeable lake, a feat no man or woman had ever done...
Only a well-worn Briticism was adequate to describe this summer's weather in Britain and a good part of Western Europe: it was "absolutely filthy." Continuous rains drenched the country lanes of England and the sidewalk cafes of Paris. In mid-August, temperatures dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season...
...chill North Pacific water does not bother otters either, for they wear the finest fur that any animal possesses...
...question that hung for eight weeks over the shabby, drab little hearing room in Washington's Temporary Building III held a burning implication for virtually everyone who walked through the door. For the thin, angular man with the chill blue eyes and the close-cropped hair, it was a challenge that demanded a desperate fight, even though he might have retired quietly on his honors without fighting. To many of the 40 great names of American atomic science and education, who flocked from their farthest retreats to testify to J. Robert Oppenheimer's character, it implied a special...
Televisionaries confidently forecast the day when every home will have its private network (so mother can keep track of the kids) and telephones will come equipped with TV screens. But there is a chill in the air: in that event, would Big Brother and his thought-controlling telescreen be far behind? Active as peeping TV is today, Big Brother is still a kid brother...