Word: chillness
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...atmosphere warmed up a little. The commission began to discuss possible Poles from outside Warsaw. Molotov would consider each name, the next day (probably after consultation with Warsaw) would say no. The chill returned. By last week, not a single Pole proposed by Clark Kerr and Harriman had been accepted...
...Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply grieved. . . . The profound sorrow of the Chinese people . . . the deep sense of gratitude they bear for him. . . . His name will be a beacon of light to humanity...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...
Seldom, if ever, had Manhattan's chill Metropolitan Museum employed such warmly seductive tactics. Its exhibition of "Costumes from the Forbidden City" (in Peking) was a three-part combination of Max Reinhardt spectacle, Diaghilev ballet, and Barnum & Bailey side show...
Sunday, Feb.11 was a chill day of intermittent rain. In the dripping churchyard after service, Dean Beekman told his organist: "You never played hymns better." Whipp thanked him, and cheerfully set off to lunch with friends at Auteuil...