Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blowing a gale. The wind shrieked over New Hampshire's Mount Washington, wrapping its 6,288-ft. summit in swirling fog. Thick ice glazed the mountain's sheer headwall. From Pinkham Notch, down in the valley, a line of black dots inched upward along two rows of red flags. The dots were ski fans, out to see the world's most dangerous ski race, "the American Inferno." The course runs in a four-mile drop from the summit over the 1,000-ft. headwall, through Tuckerman's Ravine and down a narrow wooded trail to Pinkham...
...target for the night was Souchou, a Red rail center in northwest Korea. But fog and lowering clouds hid his objective from view. "Young Jim" changed course and headed for an alternate target...
...prescriptions except that a Negro, or any man, had better learn to be what he is. "Whenever I discover whe I am, I'll be free," says the boy. "I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own." At the end, the fog of his confusions lifting, Author Ellison's hero thinks of his slave grandfather, knows that, "Hell, he never had any doubts about his humanity-that was left to his 'free' offspring...
...Design. To Feininger, each object he chose to paint-a ship gliding through the fog, a cathedral town or a Manhattan skyscraper-was nothing more than a theme. It was the space around it that gave it life and provided the harmony...
Hall said he followed the Turnpike on his way to New York, when about 3:15 p.m. showers and fog began to make flying difficult. The two-seater Cessna plane was approaching the rise two miles before the Laurel Hill Tunnel (near Somerset), but the hill, surrounding mountains, and low clouds prevented Hall from climbing or turning around...