chill

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

Close the window or you'll catch a chill.

Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.

However, the chill between the two giants did not last long; every constituency except the Westernizers found virtue in warming up to China.

For those of us who relate to that furious paddling in some form (whether we choose to conceal it below the surface or not), we are probably also aware of what, besides the water, we are really clashing against: a culture of chill.

Will and Grace still have no chill; having a pillow fight in the Oval Office proves that.