Word: chillness
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Perhaps this retreat, a sound strategic move, reflected the return to command on the western front of Germany's No. 1 soldier, chill Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was apparently back in Hitler's favor. Field Marshal Walter von Model, the previous commander, was now in charge of the northern sector under Rundstedt. Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz commanded the southern...
Most of the time the President was smiling, and the chill and the rain brought a pink glow to his face. At times he relaxed, and when he did so, the sallowness in his cheeks showed, and the heavy lines on his face; then he looked tired. Pictures of him smiling or tired were taken by all newspapers, and they made their selections according to their political sympathies (see cuts...
...chill midnight of Friday the 13th, a band of the hardier villagers heaved the long grey slab back into place. Next morning the stone was all awry again. Across it, spelled out in faggots from a nearby oak, were the words: "Non in sum." Yokels gawked until a Latinizing G.I. translated: "Nobody home...
Alexander Knox and Geraldine Fitzgerald lend an earnest dignity to the roles of the President and Mrs. Wilson. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Senator Cabot Lodges breathes into every line the chill of his stern conviction. With fire and authenticity of representation, Marcel Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss...
...correspondents pondered, and wrote tons of newsprint about this new and, to them, strange kind of campaign. Not even Dewey's most ardent admirers pretended that he ever showed a superabundance of warmth, or relaxed in backslapping informality. His deportment was precise and correct, at times even chill...