Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring brought work as well as play and immemorial festival. It also brought, as always after the cold days and long dark nights, a mood of revived hope. Europe needed it. For the mood of Western Europe was a mixture of anxieties as much as hopes, of discouragements as much as resolution. A great deal of the European mood was apparent in what people did and chatted about; something more became clear in the answers they gave in simultaneous surveys* of what they thought and expected...
...reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...
...alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
While their leader secluded himself in cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy, Chiang Kai-shek would relinquish the presidency of his country...
...results were varied and poetic as they were abstract: he painted the sea to look like a flight of cold, curling steps, and made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...