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...Grey westerns on his night table. He was forever playing golf or fishing, or otherwise treating the White House, they said, as a pleasant retirement home. And there was Ike's language, those famously incoherent press conference sentences that used to move across an idea like a dense fog; the technical term for the disease is anacoluthon, the sentence that careers around several corners and then lands in a ditch, its wheels spinning unintelligibly. Ike's press secretary, James Hagerty, used to edit the transcripts of his press conferences (body and fender work) before letting him be quoted...
...alone do not give a full sense of the volcano's fury. Bob Carpenter, a Portland auto mechanic, described the destruction that he saw as he rode by train across the muddy, logjammed Toutle River: "It was eerie, unreal, almost like looking at a graveyard in a London fog, with steam rising among the sheared trees and debris and only the sound of the train on the track." Susan Hobart, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian, added: "The living are not welcome here. The ground rejects you, trying to suck you into foot-deep mud. Chill winds knife...
Even as the bodies of the victims were being recovered, an investigation was beginning. Heavy fog had reduced visibility to near zero. Officials reported that the ship had apparently veered out of the channel and headed through the wrong opening between the cement abutments...
...sudden disappearances, which I labeled on the chart in the original German, Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), would strike fear into the hearts of the leftist guerrillas [as would] the team slated to carry out the plan as a "Special Action Group." When John Mitchell asked "What's that?" I knew that Mitchell, a naval officer in World War II, would get the message if I translated the English "Special Action Group" into German. It was a gross exaggeration, but it made my point. "An Einsatzgruppe, General, "I said, inadvertently using a hard g for the word General...
...city of Seattle is one of the biggest draws that Boeing has to offer. Though its seasons seem perpetually drizzly and Puget Sound's reputation for rain, fog and cradle-to-grave mildew is widespread, Seattle actually has less annual precipitation than New York City, Atlanta and even Houston, a fact that civic boosters take endless delight in pointing out to new arrivals. The region also offers the quiet self-confidence of a major metropolis, complete with civic center, a nationally recognized opera, ballet and theater, and the National Basketball Association champion SuperSonics...