Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's International Forum he created "a minor scandal" when he illustrated a lecture on the "New Wave" by showing Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, the movie about Nazi concentration camps that Ivy Films also presented to the public a few weeks...
...Good Way. Trading on a second-growth tonsil that gives his voice a pleasantly fuzzy purr, Tormé tried hard to be a balladeer. But his syrupy approach to hits like Blue Moon won him the unfortunate nickname "The Velvet Fog," typecast him as a limp crooner, and tempted tricksters to heckle him by slipping the irresistible r into "Fog." "Life was nothing but traveling," he says. "I was very unhappy with my recording career. Everywhere people would give me the 'so-you're-the-cocky-little-kid' bit." Mel's obstinacy never withered...
Overnight Case. Brussels, the scene of Britain's dashed hopes last week, is a dour, neon-lit old maid of a city. On Monday, the cobbled streets were slimy with black slush and blanketed with chilling fog as Britain's chief negotiator. Edward Heath, arrived with his aides. Minister for Commonwealth Affairs Duncan Sandys and Agriculture Minister Christopher Soames. The French, with a fine sense of economy, traveled light; only Luxembourg's four-man delegation was smaller. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville brought only an overnight case, for he knew that he would...
Through the Fog. Form counts heavily in points; yet Engan wins mainly because of the fantastic distance he can fly. He was sick and unable to compete for the 1960 Olympic team. But last year he won 22 of the 24 major events he entered, including the 65-meter world championship at Zakopane, Poland. Last week, competing against 72 jumpers from 14 nations in the German-Austrian Four Hills Championship, Engan demonstrated why he is the odds-on favorite to win an Olympic gold medal...
...Oberstdorf, he turned in the longest jumps of the day. On his very first jump at Innsbruck's Berg Isel ski jump, site of next year's Olympic jumping, Engan broke the hill record with a 298-ft. jump. Fog and snow made a nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge...