Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chill of a gathering fog, porters loaded 97 pieces of baggage aboard the big-bellied BOAC Stratocruiser Canopus* at floodlit London Airport. Just before midnight, as hundreds of well-wishers cheered, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh got aboard; it was the first overseas flight for an heir to the British throne. At 12:31 a.m., the Canopus took off into the mist. Back on the tarmac, Queen Elizabeth blew a last kiss, said to a companion: "I'm full of envy...
...time of transition and suspension. Along New England's shores, the squeak of a fisherman's oars against thole pins sounded lonely and clear in the fog of early morning, lately shrill with the cries of the vacationist and his young. The town greens had subsided into their dreaming quiet and the beaches were left to the surfcasters. Vermont's fields were gilded with goldenrod, shadowed with purple asters, and the swamp maples glowed...
...dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough to keep some readers from looking further...
...night last week Florence and her father decided that there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew...
...appears in a dressing gown, soon has Max frothing and fumbling. When the pair rejoins the others, Amabel looks "like a cat that has just had its own mouse coming among other cats who had only had the smell." But Amabel's triumph is short. When the fog lifts, the only kitten Max has eyes for is gentle Julia, who sports retractable claws...