Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salute your Essays as an attack on anti-intellectualism, "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24] made me rueful. You apologize for our Viet Nam presence by arguing that our interests, political, economic and moral, are served by this engagement. Eventually, we shall see that "freedom" was a cloud under which we concealed a Machiavellian dominance of the economic-political over the moral...
...fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied 2-2 in the ninth, Willie Mays slashed a grounder straight between the legs of Houston First Baseman Walt Bond. Never slowing down, Mays rounded first, streaked for second, and slid in safely amid a cloud of dust. Moments later, Willie McCovey slapped a single to right, and Mays scampered home with the run that gave the Giants their 13th straight victory, boosted their National League lead to 31 games. In the club house afterwards, Manager Franks smiled benignly. "Who knows?" he said. "Some day I may start thinking...
...ball of shining fog float ever so slowly along until it caught up with him. Now he walked in the ball of fire, in the feeling that at last he could stop fighting. He surrendered. He had no anxiety. He gave. He floated and gave, like a cloud breathing out light." Somehow, after that, Hedges can both love and loathe. He loathes his ex-wife and publicly informs her of the fact. He loves the girl with the stiletto heel and promptly takes her to wife. Happy ending? In his concluding sentence, Author Newby murmurs drily: "They lived more...
...decaying everywhere." Says he: "Society is so confused. There are triple roadblocks and detours wherever you go, and no one knows which road to travel." Viet Nam? "I know we have to stay there, but I don't know why particularly." The Bomb? "It's like a cloud hanging over me all the time...
...rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...