Word: chills
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Just back from the last of his international journeys in 1979, the Pope strode to the window of his Vatican apartment and addressed the waiting crowd in the chill night air of St. Peter's Square. "As Jean-Paul Sartre says, 'You have to know when to stay home,' " John Paul II told the throng, his face creasing with the luminous smile that has become his trademark. "We have earned a good rest, both...
...while prized corner offices, symbolic of executive success, sometimes are Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week. The reading was 62°, "and that doesn't allow for wind chill." She contemplates rising to greet a visitor and falling flat on her face because she has forgotten to step out of her snuggle sack...
After a nippy no-more-than-65° F day at the office, Urban Dweller returns to his rented apartment, flicks on the light-and watches as his sigh forms a frozen cloud in the indoor chill. The thermostat is controlled by his thrifty landlord. A woodburning stove is banned by his lease. Improved insulation, not to mention a solar water heater, is hardly on the tenant's list of options. So what does the city dweller do to keep warm...
...efforts to dismantle Chinese culture," she says. "Instruments are few, scores even fewer, but there is no dearth of enthusiasm. In Shanghai, we watched a rehearsal of Swan Lake in a room so cold we could see our breath. The dancers, however, took no notice of the chill. They were simply pleased to be performing...
Both offenses stalled in the chill intermittent rain of the third quarter, with much of the period spent deep in Eliot territory. Running back Scotty Guild, who had reinjured a sore ankle on the first offensive play of the game, returned to the lineup to help Eliot work its way out of trouble...