Word: chillness
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With the first chill winds of fall: > OPAdministrator Leon Henderson's statisticians pored over 43 years of Weather Bureau figures. They came up with an allegedly scientific map zoning 30 States according to climate for fuel-oil rationing...
...sleep with their jobs-gunners with their guns, drivers with their trucks and jeeps. Mosquito nets are a necessity against anopheles. It rains almost every night-weepy tropical rain that soaks into the bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga...
Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns were Vogue subscribers; stores fought to listed as outlets for goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani...
...chill mouth, the lean rigor of his face, the green blaze in his eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
...home front and our somewhat cheesy solidarity, our handling of the rubber situation, the negative quality of the Atlantic Charter, the mishandling of war information-all these are very minor bungles in a monstrously big job. No government on earth, not even Hitler's so-called model of chill efficiency, could do better, nor should better be expected...