Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what I do. Not even I we either take everything for sure and real or we don't. If we follow the first oath we get bored to death with ourselves and the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state...
...knows what the inside looks like...except those who have gone in, I suppose, if they can see: the wet heavy air--fog--has over the years collected in the hole and the sun does not go more than a hundred feet into it. The children are afraid of this place. There are many stories about it. Occasionally teachers from the college talk about it, but to the rest of us it is neither evil nor godly. We ignore...
...beds. Much more often than not, the buildings are never licensed or put on the tax rolls. All told, the 1,300 private guesthouses in the Zakopane region produce about $45 million a year in mostly tax-free revenue -one reason why the goradi say that "every time the fog closes in, the guesthouses grow like mushrooms...
...lather was ploughing when unexpectedly, the fog shrouding the mountain all disappeared suddenly. My lather stood in the field with the buffalo watching for the plane to pass so he could unhitch the buffalo. But suddenly four planes of the F-4H type flew over and immediately released their bombs. The bombs destroyed my village. All six houses burnt and a bomb fell about fifteen meters from where my father was ploughing, causing the blown up earth and the shrapnel to kill my father and the buffalo instantly... My sister and I ran over to him, but I saw that...
...year of devastating disappointment. In October, Kissinger euphorically reported to the world that "peace is at hand" in Viet Nam. Then, as it has so many times before in America's longest and strangest war, the peace proved once again elusive. As the Paris negotiations dissolved in a fog of linguistic ambiguities and recriminations, Richard Nixon suddenly sent the bombers north again. All through the year, Nixon and Kissinger labored at a new global design, a multipolar world in which an equilibrium of power would ensure what Nixon called "a full generation of peace." But at year...