Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month, especially in Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
Indeed, it was more a condition than a voice-something like three parts fog to one part frog. A doctor, upon hearing him for the first time, rushed up to caution: "With a throat like that, you should be home in bed." But that hoarse, honey-cured quality carried a certain tranquilizing caress that was his vocal signature and sustained him admirably through the years while legions of belters and bleaters flourished and died. With moistened lips and a flashing, yard-wide smile, he let a song uncurl from his cavernous mouth with the nonchalance of a man blowing smoke...
...Baker Street Irregulars test the floorboards occasionally and the boards hold. Three ballet boys garrote one of Holmes's trusty lieutenants in an artily choreographed frenzy of mincing violence. From time to time, the orchestra strikes up, but scarcely tunes. Where there's smoke, there's fog, and that is where most of the London atmosphere comes from, except for a rooftop view of the Diamond Jubilee Parade through Trafalgar Square, with tiny Grenadier Guard puppets and the Queen's jeweled coach crossing a slanted backdrop that for one enchanting moment truly fools the eye with...
...glasses for fine wine, tobacco and pipes, two large knives, and a rifle resting on the couch. He apologized slightly for the disorder--"I've just come back from Oxford"--and he remarked, with an eye to the sleet falling outside, that Europe had been worse--all wrapped in fog...
Harvard's basketball team, wearied by a long train ride to Princeton after their plane had been grounded by fog, suffered a 76-55 loss to the Tigers at Dillon Gym last night...