Word: chillness
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Lampy added his own spice to the brew with an ill-fated beauty feast that needs little rhashing. B. Rose came out on the odd end of that one, as did Chill Williams in the Dramatic Club's sorry hunt for masculine pulchritude...
...chill autumn twilight, Pedro Pisani, citizen of Buenos Aires, sat on the sidewalk before his three-room suburban home, sipped unsugared mate (South American tea), and considered his lot. He was worried about the future. Argentine-born son of Italian immigrants, father of three, mild-mannered Pedro had worked for 20 years or more in the offices of Gath & Chaves, a big downtown department store. Until two years ago he earned $50 a month. Since then, Juan Perón's election-time decrees (and the store's voluntary raises) had upped his pay to $63. Still...
...found what he was looking for: bone tools and stone artifacts, exposed along the sidewall of a deep trench which carries Mexico City's sewage to the lowlands. According to Dr. de Terra, the soil in which the bones and stones were found was formed under a chill and rainy climate; it is his conjecture that this rainy period coincided with the last great glacial period in North America...
...Robert P. ("Pepper") Martin, usually willing to lean over backwards to give the Soviets a break, angrily reported a "studied and cynical 'freeze' against correspondents, who received treatment usually accorded spies or nationals of an unfriendly nation. . . . This correspondent walked through city streets after dark with chill fear gripping his stomach when challenges sounded...
...First symptoms of the illness appeared in August, 1921, when I was thoroughly tired from overwork. I first had a chill in the evening which lasted practically all night. The following morning the muscles of the right knee appeared weak and by afternoon I was unable to support my weight on my right leg. That evening the left knee began to weaken also and by the following morning I was unable to stand up. This was accompanied by a continuing temperature of about 102 and I felt thoroughly achy all over. By the end of the third day practically...