Word: fogbank
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...early stages of Alzheimer's, the eyes have a wariness, a veil of fear. It's as if the person is standing at the edge of a fogbank, knowing that in time it will engulf him and there is no chance of outrunning it. I used to see my father's eyes simultaneously plead and hold firm. It would happen when a sentence broke off because he couldn't remember how to finish it. Or when he would say, "I have this condition--I keep forgetting things." He was on a high wire, balancing on courage, with the dark waters...
...title song, It's Your Call, McEntire's voice comes rolling in, a fogbank of joylessness. A mistress calls and a wife answers, handing the phone to her adulterous husband: "Yeah, I know all about it; don't act so surprised." The descent continues. On Will He Ever Go Away, McEntire deals with a love affair's ruins, asking, "Shouldn't I start living my life for myself?" She doesn't answer the question, letting it linger in the last twangs of the song...
...transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison was already experimenting. He has devised a day-or-night rocket to explode at 4,000 ft. and hoped to adjust the explosion to give an incoming pilot an accurate idea of the airport location and the height of the fogbank. Another line of experimentation, he suggested, might be a sound-signal to the fog-barred pilot, "a distinctive sound . . . which would cut through the noise of the motor and reach the aviator...
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