Word: chillness
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...have able men than representative men in the House." Late in 1928 he went to live in Rapallo, near his thorny friend Ezra Pound. Four years later he still wrote of the "exultant weeks" in early 1929 during which he had written the first dozen of those strong, chill lyrics, "all emotion and all impersonal," which make up Words For Music Perhaps. He wrote, during those same weeks, "I have come to feel that the world's great poetical period is over...
...ticked off the places where the United Nations might attack in Europe, was slow, tantalizing, mocking. He said "they-are-going-to-get-it" with great threatening hyphens between the words. Americans, listening by their radios, remembering Coventry and the Hitler boasts that used to bring a chill to their hearts, nodded. Franklin Roosevelt had captured something of Winston Churchill's spirit...
...Japan, did not want to take part in discussions on the Far East. But probably most of the trouble was a vast and inexcusable neglect. In China, it used to be said of General Hsiung: "He can ride with the whirlwind and direct the storm." With Washington's chill and ominous calm, he could last week ride no longer...
...chill and windy Kalmuck steppes south of Stalingrad, where the Russians had narrowly repulsed a German counteroffensive, the Red Army still advanced last week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...
Correspondents live circumscribed routine lives in Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing...