Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay here?" he says. "I earn a good living-a very good living." > PIANIST BUD POWELL, 38, is unquestionably the most important jazz musician in Europe, and he is universally considered the best of the bebop pianists. He left New York in 1959, briefly emerging from the fog that had kept him close to mental hospitals since 1947. In Paris, he is distant, silent and alone. He scarcely talks to anyone except to murmur the two-line litany that describes his bleak fate. "Do you like me?" he will ask, and if the answer is yes, he says, "Then...
...time, Author Christopher Herold notes in this witty and vividly detailed account of those three years, all the dreams seemed to come true. The French fleet of 400 sails that left Toulon on May 19, 1798, managed to evade a British squadron under Admiral Nelson in the fog and sailed on to Alexandria undisturbed. With an advance guard of only 5,000 men (out of a total force of 50,000, including sailors), Napoleon landed through the surf on a remote beach and advanced on Alexandria by night with neither cavalry nor artillery. Taking the garrison by surprise, he captured...
Sylvester's opposite number at Foggy Bottom made the same point in somewhat less colloquial terms. The whole problem has "been obscured in the great fog bank of clichés raised by some of the press,'' said Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning. The State Department, he insisted, "is as wide open as Yankee Stadium." Could be, cracked Connecticut Democrat John Monagan, but "we have had a lot of trouble with the turnstiles...
Stupid Dupes. Though he did not appear at the hearings, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger sought in his own way to disperse the fog bank by turning the press's own charges against itself. There is, Salinger told a Women's National Press Club luncheon, "only one legitimate place where news can be 'managed' -the desks of newspaper city editors and managing editors and of radio and television news directors...
...made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Only if they are arranged in a sheet less than 8 in. thick will those tiny bits of ice cover one another's shadows just enough to cause the rings' sudden brightening...