Word: chillness
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...Tories had begun to feel the chill of fear again. From the dead-heat of a few hours before, Labor had slowly and jerkily pulled ahead. A pale-faced Tory official, joy gone dead in his eyes, gasped: "They could win-even...
Radcliffe freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will win a warm welcome and a cooling drink at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night as the CRIMSON opens its spring competition for potential Radcliffe news correspondents. If the air be chill, transportation home will be provided...
...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides...
...Familiar things held him most: great buildings honeycombed with lonely rooms, stark streets emptied for the night, railway embankments, movie theaters, brightly lighted lunch rooms, waiting figures at the doors of isolated houses, gas stations on darkening highways, overgrown backyards, and beach cottages squatting haunch to haunch in the chill September wind...
Over the years The Turn of the Screw has become more than a notable ghost story to chill the blood: it has become a kind of highbrow mystery story to challenge the mind. Pre-Freudian but often strikingly akin to Freud, it hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...