Word: chillness
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...York City's famed Fifth Avenue, spirits undamped by a chill rain that made banners limp and drumheads soggy, tramped 48,000 of the faithful, colleens and patriarchs mostly, as the young Hibernians are off fighting again...
South of Panama last week, Yanqui prestige fell steadily. In spite of chill disapproval from the U.S., General Farrell's militarist, Argentina-first government basked and blustered in official recognition from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay. The U.S. Good Neighbor policy was not yet in acute danger. But proud Argentina, traditionally jealous of the U.S., had made a beginning on a small Good Neighbor policy...
...morning, Red tankmen chipped ice off the treads and gun barrels. Their breath was cotton-thick in the chill air; their polushubki (half-coats) were stiff with frost. The cold had come late. But now, in some sectors, this was the harshest winter in a century...
...vision, how much was modesty, how much was love of quietness and independence? . . . Education such as I received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality of outlook and ambition, which I should not have encountered amid the complex passions and intrigues of a Spanish environment...
Like death's shroud, snow fell on Ortona. Over the town's rubble and corpses a chill Apennine wind keened. Ortona, for centuries alive and pleasant on a rocky shelf above the slate-colored Adriatic, now lay dead and hideous. The battle had surged...