Word: chillness
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Secretary of State Byrnes saw and stated the importance to world peace of a revived, united Germany. He failed to emphasize the fact that a revived, united Germany would only be endurable within the matrix of a revived, united Europe. Anything short of that sends a cold chill through the veins of Europeans sick to death of the monotonous regularity with which German revival and unity end up in German militarism and aggression...
...their cut-&-dried convention in Albany, the Democratic bosses brayed that their party holds the sole patent on liberalism. The delegates, most of whom went to Albany in a nervous chill of defeatism, were warmed by the appearance of Eleanor Roosevelt as keynoter, gave her an affectionate ovation, cheered her as she struck another campaign chord: the G.O.P. is the party of "backward conservatives...
...Albany. His man for the Senate now was 50-year-old Irving M. Ives, a veteran of World War I, majority leader of the State Assembly, dean of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Dewey's nod to Ives put a fatal chill on the boosters for Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan (TIME, Sept. 2). A respected legislator, with a good record on labor relations, Mr. Ives grasped his opportunity gratefully...
...Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff restrictions and, to the sugar growers of Luzon, this means that in eight years the sugar will rot on the waterfronts and even the brand new Constitution...
Frenchmen felt a chill. The outbreak, the first riot since liberation, showed that deep and dangerous passions lurked under the surface of coalition politics...