Word: chillness
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...landing would be easier, the supply problem (across more than 400 miles of sea) far more difficult. The problem of coordinating Empire and U.S. troops, of hooking two armies, two navies and two air forces (with further subdivisions) into a single, smoothly functioning tactical weapon was one to chill the heart of the toughest and most diplomatic officer that ever lived...
...speaking against it (TIME, May 18), the Prime Minister was, as usual, doing nothing. He stalled Parliamentary debate on the conscription issue, in the hope that something would turn up. As usual, something did, this time in the ugly form of torpedoes (see p. 20} streaking across the chill waters of the St. Lawrence River, for centuries the heartstream of French Quebec. The St. Lawrence sinkings had the effect of dousing cold water on many of the hotheads in Quebec who had not been able to forget old grievances, economic maladjustment and religious and racial issues in the face...
...workingman in Scotland was too busy to do more than grouse about what he suspected, but the awful realities of Scotland's economy moved a chill hand over the hearts of Scotland's industrialists. Last week able, convincing Secretary of State for Scotland Tom Johnston, onetime editor of a left-wing Independent Labor Party newspaper, hung the high Scottish grouse before Parliament's nostrils...
...Fascist for me and I'll think about making you a Captain of Marines." Ambrose's magazine and Poppet's Marxed-up reflex to it furnished Basil with his Fascist. His betrayal of Ambrose is a piece of murderous satire which should at once warm and chill the hearts of hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line for its surprising epilogue. France fallen, and Sir Joseph Mainwaring blathering along about the war's having entered "a new and more glorious phase," Waugh girds up his ghosts...
...Japanese were last week clamping a chill pattern of subjugation over the still-warm framework of military conquest. All the world knows that Hitler's European New Order is failing. It will be a long time before the world knows how Japan's New Order will fare in Asia, for the Japanese have a genius for suppression. But by last week two facts began to glimmer through the huggermugger murk: 1) the Japanese were stealing everything in sight; 2) they were treating prisoners surprisingly well...