Word: frigid
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...Frigid Ruin. A deal along those lines, instead of a Communist-dominated government for all China, might be shaping up. In either case, the Communist boss, Mao Tse-tung, would probably demand that Chiang Kai-shek leave office. There seemed to be little disposition in China to resist such a demand...
...Communist China south of the Yangtze could not expect permanent peace with the Communist north. And it could not survive if the U.S. pursued toward it the same frigid policy that had helped ruin Chiang Kaishek. A free south China, however, would give Washington another chance to develop a positive policy before all Asia was lost...
...Spanish Loyalist, prisoner of the fascists, is offered his life if he tells where a Loyalist leader is hiding. In the cemetery, he answers contemptuously-naming the most unlikely place he can think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...
...Paris last week, Charles de Gaulle held one of the most extraordinary press conferences of his career. The general was by turns ironical, frigid and passionate...
...about it? Something could be; but probably nothing would be. Republicans were determined to sit tight while accusing the President of failing to use the anti-inflation powers he already had. The President's own program was a far cry from his fighting speech in Philadelphia. In the frigid atmosphere of Capitol Hill, his subdued tones and cautious suggestions were like the speech of a small boy who is ordered to repeat in court the bold words he had used in the alley...