Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the gas spread across nearby Route 231, it looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting...
...earlier albums, Mitchell occasionally explored extended instrumental sections. "Paprika Plains," a 16-minute song that occupies the entire second side of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, is her longest and most exhausting instrumental effort to date. This song is a reverie, set in a late-night doper's fog, recalling the pain and sweetness of childhood and varied impressionistic scenes of her youth. Mitchell comes close to the warm chords she used in earlier pieces, like the instrumental break in "Down To You," (Court and Spark) but there is a constant tension beneath the surface, a dissonance that colors...
...understand immediately. Several hundred films have used ground fog rising off fields and the dark figures of waiting men to give the same contrast between soft landscape and hard purpose. A duel is to be fought. The swordplayers level rapiers, hold, touch blades in saute, fight. One falls, too badly wounded to continue...
...fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good whiskey that provided him with his own private Dreamland...
Last week the Soviet team had callers. From the fog-shrouded space station at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, two more cosmonauts were launched into orbit aboard Soyuz 27. They were Air Force Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 35, a pilot who is making his first space flight, and Oleg Makarov, 44, his civilian flight engineer whose two previous Soyuz missions included a flight that was aborted and forced to land in the snows of Siberia near the Chinese border in 1975. After chasing the blinking red and blue lights of Salyut round the earth for a day, the cosmonauts caught up with...