Word: chillingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were comparatively chill. His line and wash drawings were among his most spontaneous and therefore best creations...
...near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price of $3,411, for a thumping total of $98,919. That...
...last British king to invade the House of Commons officially was Charles I who, with an armed escort, stormed up to the House on a chill afternoon in January 1642 in search of his rebellious Ministers Pym, Holles, Heselrige, Strode and Hampden. He entered alone to ask for the culprits. Speaker William Lenthall told him coldly: "May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am." "I see my birds are flown," answered Charles, turning back to stride through...
...Flight 202 out to the end of the runway and revved up his engines for the nonstop flight to Mexico City, 430 mountain-studded miles to the southeast. Guzmán tested his flaps and rudder, then gave his DC-3 the gun and soared up into the chill, starry night. At 12,000 feet he seemed to feel something wrong. "It didn't feel like anything serious," he later explained, "but there was a vibration somewhere in the back and the controls didn't feel just right." The temperature outside was a few degrees above freezing. Pilot...
...order of their distance: the moon (240,000 miles, 9½ hours); Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn (790 million miles, 1,333 days). The planetarium's "Passenger Briefing" warned that the moon is no such warm romantic place as it might seem over Miami, but rather a chill, arid spot, covered with a layer of dustlike pumice several feet thick, where conversation would be impossible, climate problematical, and locomotion difficult. While working up to a speed of 3,621 m.p.h., those with high blood pressure might suffer momentary blackouts...