Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fog. Then, after Hitler's fateful invasion of Russia in 1941, Josip Broz suddenly emerged from the fog as Tito the Partisan, who fiercely fought Germans (as well as non-Communist Yugoslavs who followed the late General Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than...
...stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from the fog...
...small boats got off in fine weather, close-hauled in a fresh breeze. Eight hours later, the big ones lit out in pursuit and disappeared into a fog bank to the southwest. The breeze stayed fresh all the first day & night, the seas quiet. Nobody got sick. Most skippers, leery of the Gulf Stream's northeastward drift, worked up to windward (but the stream carried one boat 210 miles off course). First into the stream was the 54-ft. ketch Malabar XIII, skippered and designed by white-haired John G. Alden. The flat weather gave light-air boats...
...Fog. Pearson's Wilde is a skillful synthesis of earlier books, amended by such facts and opinions as he was able to gather at firsthand. "No one," he declares, "[has] yet attempted to reconstruct Wilde as a great character.. . . Far too much attention [has] been paid to his tragic story and nothing like enough to his delightful personality. . . . My intention [is] to take him out of the fog of pathology into the light of comedy, to restore the true perspective of his career...
...this he has been only partly successful. To rescue Oscar altogether from the pathological fog is more than he or anybody else can do. Oscar's homosexual tastes and his literary personality are hardly separable, however true it may be that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd...