Word: chills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich assortment of fine European pastries and pies" ($1.75)--our night it included strawberry shortcake--just didn't make it either. Due to a combination of freezing and the wind chill factor from the perpetual spinning, most of the desserts arrived at the table ice cold--consider ordering them with your dinner to give them time to thaw...
Food warmers and refrigerator trucks were borrowed from the military, and so were two old but serviceable Sears, Roebuck fishing boats that were used to chill the white wine and champagne. Washington's Ridgewells Caterer provided gold ballroom chairs, creamcolored china with gold borders, cutlery, glasses, fingerbowls and napkins. The main tent, gay as springtime with its tangerine and yellow stripes, was longer than the White House itself. It and six smaller tents were rented for about $12,000 from a Maryland company...
PRINCETON, N.J.--This one came in a quick, painful burst, and was held there by the chill of the long afternoon. Deadlocked 7-7 after nine and one-half innings, combatants Harvard and Princeton were suddenly no longer variables in their 1979 Eastern League opener...
Apart from the main shocks and spasms of violence, numerous small touches--a subtle darkening of light or deadening of sound--all carry their quiet effect and chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...
...uniform of the day," says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale...