Word: frigidities
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...home. But that populist touch has now all but vanished. Today he is aloof, unabashedly aristocratic, and fashions himself a closet literary critic with a passion for Guy de Maupassant. He has learned to manipulate the constitution and the press to serve his interests, and today projects an almost frigid aura of statesmanship. Giscard now practices with atavistic veracity de Gaulle's most imperial trait--standing at a calculated distance form his people. And judging from his re-election prospects, the French approve...
...going along with the U.S., the allies clearly thought they had secured a guarantee from Carter that he would not make a military move against Iran. Any such action, the allies feared, might endanger a major part of their Middle East oil supplies and make even worse the frigid relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Now they felt betrayed by the President of the U.S. What was more, they were astonished by his timing and the ineptness of the maneuver. Fumed a high official in Bonn: "The incompetence that permeates this Administration is incredible." Said a senior analyst...
...been put there by Freddy. They keep a hostile, jeering world at bay, allowing the giant to bury himself in books and solitude, preventing intrusions from the outside that have, in the past, provoked him to tantrums of awesome violence. As Winesap settles down for the night in a frigid guest bedroom, he hears heavy footsteps approaching his door...
...PROVERBIAL LAST straw came when Clark introduced a budget that was trumpeted as austere but criticized as unfair. The government fell December 13, and the Tories slated a national election for February 18, the first campaign in the midst of Canada's frigid winter since 1887. Many experts claim that the Tories engineered their downfall. Given Trudeau's resignation and the constant harassment by both the Liberals and the socialist, labor-backed New Democratic Party, (NDP) an election seemed a good time to consolidate Conservative support, catch the Liberals in a tricky interregnum bind, and at the same time blame...
...Alaska's frigid shores...