Word: chills
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Those who lived through the Great Depression absorbed an enduring metaphysical chill from it. Even in later, better times, the cold air of those years would gust through them like a warning...
...Depression chill eventually faded from the land. It left little mark on those raised in the prosperity of the Eisenhower years. It all but died in the raucous immediacies of the '60s. But the chill comes back from time to time, as now, in the ominous buck and plunge of the markets, amid the sound of axes at work in the orchards of the NASDAQ...
...with mixed feelings (thrilled fear, perhaps) that these students watch the market, and see a shadow come upon the land. Could this be chill history at last - large unpleasant history - arriving amid lives that began around the time of Ronald Reagan's first inauguration and proceeded through his "Morning in America," to Bush the Elder and his now-you-see-it-now-you-don't Gulf War? Fully half a college sophomore's life has been spent in a time of uninterrupted economic expansion; before that, the so-called Decade of Greed dangled over his childhood like a bright mobile...
...items above. One-inch-thick steel would only be 1 in. thick on weekend nights and holidays. During weekday business hours, it would be one-third of an inch thick; and if one carried the steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh a pound nor be composed of grain without the purchase of a 12-month contract...
...Chill out there, Shaggy. Perhaps I was slightly exaggerating. Nevertheless, do not underestimate the power of a live fantasy baseball draft until you've been there, done that. I don't mean a new-age, live draft over the Internet. I'm talking about an in-person, face-to-face, no-holds-barred draft with ten dedicated baseball fans in attendance. Each player sits around a table with notes, fantasy-guide publications, and phone contacts for possible trades or late-breaking news flashes. An elected commissioner announces each pick when a yellow-index card is handed...