Word: chillness
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...tidelands bill petitioned Taft to set the bill aside while other issues were considered. "Ridiculous," said Taft. When the opponents pointed out that federal rent control will expire April 30 unless the Senate acts, Taft had a rejoinder that was enough to give Lehman, Humphrey, Douglas & Co. a chill on behalf of their big-city constituents. Said he: "I don't care if rent control expires...
...chill that runs up & down the back when sentiment is deeply stirred is "a vestigial reaction" dating back to hairy ancestors, the A.M.A. Journal told a questioning New Jersey doctor. A more primitive response is seen when the hair stands on end, but the tingle up the back, says the Journal, is the same sort of thing...
...carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced to a steely chill...
...heat before another hundred years have passed. New York City's climate will swing between 107° and -16°, while the great plains of the Midwest will reach 115° or higher. Los Angeles, says Court, will have to face an embarrassing 23° chill, but Angelenos can take consolation in the fact that the Florida coast will feel an even colder 9°. Despite the high odds that he is correct, Court, like any experienced weatherman, hedges his prophecies. All predictions, says he, assume that the climate in general, which has been changing slowly since the last...
...considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration without hat and overcoat, and took more than an hour to read his 8,000-word inaugural address, the longest in U.S. history. Never was author's pride more bitterly rewarded; he caught a chill and died a month later...