Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ready), and then "Peheel!" (Action). The trap door fell open, and Eichmann's body, plunging out of sight into the room below, swung slightly at the end of the rope. The corpse was cut down, carried to a corner of the prison grounds where, in swirls of ground fog, it was thrust into an aluminum oven with a chimney at one end. A gas fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into the sky. None of the watching officials and reporters said...
...afterward by his 16-year-old daughter, Dominique, and told her: "I lived those last minutes of the trial in a dream. Then I saw all those people, so still and quiet all afternoon, suddenly jump up and shout and sing the Marseillaise. Magnificent! Me-I was in a fog...
...curious thing about the pitcures in the Adams House Photography Festival--practically every entrant including most of the judges, was petrified by the possibility that he might take a picture exposing a live, human emotion. With few exceptions, the entries consist of still lifes of fog and mountains and trees and water and whatever other of God's wonders were available. Darkroom wonders and technical manipulations, generally leading to a sterile effect, also cluttered the walls. There were of course, some excellent examples of this type--Dean Arthur D. Trottenbergs' Groton store and Arno Szegvari's soft, low-contrast woods...
...plans each year for halting the Belchenschlacht (Belchen slaughter) that stretches from November through February. But each year the hunters return. When Swiss and German S.P.C.A. members staged a protest meeting, angry hunters bombarded them with birdshot. So far, the hapless Belchen's only hope is fog. On both the Swiss and German sides of Lake Constance, Belchen hunting in the fog is prohibited: a stray shot might nick a hunter, and this would be considered bad form, even for a Belchenjagd...
While preparations were being made, the President presided over a 45-minute National Security Council meeting. Then he left the White House, walked through the cold rain and fog to a limousine where Bobby Kennedy and Sister Jean Kennedy Smith were waiting. Three minutes after they boarded the big presidential jet, Air Force One, the plane took off for Florida...