Word: chill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopts the role of public penitent and stands at the altar of his church glorifying the twelve martyrs, whom, he says, he has failed. "I let myself be paralyzed by the withering breath of despair!" he cries. "Blessed be the names of your martyrs! For they forgave me." Chill Wind. The truth is, of course, quite different. Mr. Shin, refusing to issue a public statement supporting the Communists, had acted the role of a hero, as a captured North Korean officer privately reveals. He had been spared on a whim of the officers: "He was the only...
...enter the war and the U.N. forces are forced to retreat to the south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come to believe that what man needs is not the chill wind of reason, as the young narrator insists, but the healing balm of belief...
...Last Chill. What ended the marriage was Napoleon's belated discovery that he could father an heir. For years he had assumed, on the evidence of Josephine's two children by her first marriage, that he was responsible for the fact that his own marriage had been childless. In 1806, however, he became the father of an illegitimate son, and in 1809 his mistress of the moment, Polish Countess Maria Walewska, revealed that she was pregnant. Several months later, Bonaparte announced his decision to divorce Josephine for the good of the state. Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria gave...
President Johnson's talk of economy may please most businessmen, but it sends a chill through the $20 billion defense industry, where the President has indicated that he intends to take most of his budget savings. In the second half of the 1960s, the current $51 billion defense budget is expected to drop to about $45 billion - about where it stood three years ago. Though the deep effects on the industry are still in the future, both businessmen and the Government are showing increasing concern about what defense companies will do as Government spending levels...
...take the chill off après-swim, there is always the all-encompassing shift. But Catalina has produced a rival that it calls the Sponge-a bright-colored, V-necked sweater of Antron, so stretchy that it slips easily down over the shoulders when the sun comes out -or the move seems desirable...