Word: chillness
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Myrand was assembling a patrol in the chill darkness near Eschweiler when a company runner told him. "Go back," he said. "I got no time for gags." Then he started toward the Nazi lines. Returning, he was blown out of a jeep by a bursting mine. Then, bruised, unbelieving, he found himself traveling...
...involuntary tranquilizer of liberated Europe was Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt. His unexpected sweep into Luxembourg and Belgium had sent a chill through every nation from which the Germans had been recently driven. While the chill lasted, liberated Europeans might be expected to bury their deep civil differences in that common grave which held the latest victims of German savagery. At least for the moment, some of the Left and some of the Right seemed to have grasped the fact that so long as the common enemy must still be fought and defeated, they must forgo the luxury...
...Chill wartime winds from Washington had numbed the sports outlook for 1945, but there were lukewarm currents...
...supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A. room, all but drowns in a maelstrom of the unforgettable noises of combat...
Call in the Band? The Senate voted (37-to-27) to throw the nominations back into committee. Tom Connally, deciding that the hearings might as well be open, engaged the huge, chill Senate caucus room (capacity: 400). Secretaries went hastily to work in the Senate Library, poring over volumes of MacLeish verse, culling choice lines for Senators-who had been speaking bad prose all their lives, without knowing it-to chomp aloud at the hearings...