Word: chills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spreti's cold-blooded murder sent a chill through the diplomatic corps in Latin America-and elsewhere. Since the beginning of 1970, eight such kidnapings or attempts have occurred in Latin America. All the victims but Von Spreti were freed, most after as many as 20 political prisoners had been released. But nobody is likely to forget Von Spreti's fate-or how U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned down on a Guatemala City street nearly two years ago as he tried to escape an ambush. Indeed, even as Guatemalans were searching for Von Spreti, U.S. Consul...
...Maya curer of seventy-two years and no teeth, bolstered for the sacrilege by many chill beers the cabdriver has put in him, awaits the couple. 343 chickadees and a pigeon chirrup away and 3 unfortunately die of heart failure when Girl and Alfred come snooping around their wicker cages...
...even Victoria's Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board has come up with a really effective solution. One woman whose supply of the Pill was eaten by mice only half jokingly proposed birth control as a long-range solution. Officials, however, were placing their faith in the first chill of the Australian winter-but that was still many weeks...
...avalanches have sent more than a normal winter chill through resort operators. The potential threat to France's booming ski industry was deemed serious enough to open a government inquiry. It will determine, among other things, whether France should upgrade its modest detection system, now run by the weather service, and whether too many resorts are built along the natural paths of snowslides...
Luck and Tendencies. Such a passage could be interpreted as an apologia for the Silent Generation's chill neutralities. But George Orwell-another Third Journalist-would have understood that her commitment is a virtuous aversion to political language "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Like Orwell, Adler refuses the facile role of advocate or judge. In the trial of history she is simply a friend of the court. Luck and journalistic instinct informed her of tendencies just before they became movements. She was with Martin Luther...