Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a happy future in the house. There was a perceptible silence. Then Master Johnson, age nine, piped up, "There isn't any Mrs. Johnson. One's dead and one's divorced," adding hopefully, "but Daddy's got a girl friend." As the silence turned glacial, Mr. Hallowell rose from his fireside, smote the roadside restaurateur smartly on the back, and speaking for the first time said, "Bully for you, Johnson...
PITCHING. The Pirates have the requisite pair of strong men to start as many as five of the possible seven games: Mormon Elder Vernon Law (20-9), who has glacial calm and a fast slider...
...vice-presidency, failed in his own first race for the Republican congressional nomination in the affluent 16th (Beverly Hills) District. After 1956 charges that he had been an influence peddler around Washington, Murray Chotiner abruptly retired from Nixon's life, campaigned for Congress this spring with glacial silence from Nixon, lost to a soft-hitting wealthy oilman, Alphonzo E. Bell...
...inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic hack painter. The plot, insofar as there is one, advances at a glacial pace towards the question of what Flagg and Kinsolving had to do with the brutal sex-murder of an Italian peasant girl...