Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon Walker's defeat left Labor with only a three-vote majority in the Commons. That meant Wilson had little hope of carrying through the package of welfare legislation he had promised in his October "manifesto." The slightest number of absentees, caused by flu or a heavy London fog, could bring about the defeat of any bill or a vote of no confidence. And while a loss on a minor bill could be shrugged off, a no-confidence vote on a major measure could force an immediate general election on terms of advantage only to Tories...
Scores of writers have by now testified to the peculiar sense of helplessness that life under Communism brings to the thinking idealist. Some are the muffled voices that come out of the chill fog of post-Stalinist "thaws," others angry protests of those driven to refuge in the West. Few have been more bitterly outspoken or better qualified to speak than Rumanian Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine...
...really glad to have those maps when there was a fog over the Aegean," Mercury exclaimed...
...plenty of details to be filled in by Freudenberg, skipper of the pride of the Israeli passenger fleet, the seven-month-old, $20 million Shalom, and by Captain Kristian Bendiksen, 54, of the 12,723-ton Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. The two ships collided early Thanksgiving morning in heavy fog 17 miles northeast of Barnegat Lightship, off the New Jersey coast...
SAMMY DAVIS JR. SINGS MEL TORME'S CALIFORNIA SUITE (Reprise). As a singer, Mel Torme is known as "the velvet fog"; as a composer he is known scarcely at all. Yet Torme is responsible for at least four songs that have become standards in the repertory. Sammy Davis Jr. gives A Stranger in Town a stronger performance than Torme's original, and his rendition of Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album...