Word: chillness
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...that time, poverty had spread its chill hand across the U.S. farmlands. Corn had dropped to 19? a bushel, hogs to 2½? a lb. and cotton to a demoralizing 5? and 6? a lb.; dairy farmers were forced to sell their milk for 2? and 3? a quart. Foreclosures had deprived thousands of farmers of their farms; in Iowa alone, one out of seven farmers lost his land between 1926 and 1931. Godfearing, usually law-abiding men banded together and picketed highways, overturning milk into creeks. That was one way to get rid of surpluses...
Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...
...Verona. The innkeeper accepted with a will, romped and drank with the visitors until long after closing time. At last his guests drove off in two cars and a small truck, and Piazza set about locking up the tavern. When he got to Juliet's room, a cold chill gripped his heart. Gone were the bedstead, the wardrobe and the other Capulet relics. In their place, stuck firmly to the wall, was a note written on parchment in purest 13th century Italian. "I prefer beloved Verona to this creepy castle," it read. And it was signed Giulietta...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...
...pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing her first Turandot, she found the part "so cold-really musicless...