Word: chills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investors were despondent over the slide. The fear of a major business slump pervaded Wall Street like a chill fog. The mood conjured up the grim humor of The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Market, a 19th century painting by William Holbrook Beard that hangs in the gallery of the New-York Historical Society. In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam. The topic was the recession and how long it would be before the Administration realized how serious it could become. President Nixon's press-conference avowal last week...
Chewing a fat cigar and bundled up against a chill wind at Sharm el Sheikh, near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli Chief of Staff General Haim Bar-Lev talked to newsmen last week about Israel's military plans. "I regard all Egypt," he said, "as ground for attack." Said another officer: "If they continue to make trouble for us, we will continue to make trouble for them...
...sons, like the perennial feeding of Athenian youths to the Minotaur, is in the inevitable order of things. Certainly the Vietnamese themselves, their homeland a battleground for more than 20 years, have long since been infected by such a stupefying sense of human affairs. There is the chill of a death beyond the sum of the individual deaths creeping up through a society for which war becomes routine...