Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From thick forests and plains deep in Prussia to the fog-shrouded Baltic coast, the Warsaw Pact last week began the most massive military maneuvers in its history. A total of 100,000 men drawn from all seven member nations were being deployed under Russian command, in an exercise code-named "Brotherhood in Arms." At the same time, NATO started its biggest war games of the year, also involving 100,000 men, in the eastern Mediterranean area. Code-named "Deep Express," they involve air, land and sea forces from eight Western nations...
...identical phrasing. Again, it was all too short, but so sweet. The show closed with "Land Of a Thousand Dances" in a burst of strobe-light flashes, but unfortunately without the finishing touch. The climax of most shows (as at the Summerthing gig) features Ike shooting a cloud of fog from a fire extinguisher across the strobe-lit stage, swirling through the blur of Tina and the Ikettes...
...wrap their troubles in euphemisms, or at least camouflage them in obfuscating language. Many companies have been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...
...year history, the America's Cup challenge has been spectacularly one-sided. Last week, though the U.S. yacht Intrepid held a 3-1 lead over Australia's Gretel II on the scoreboard, the action on the water was the closest, most hard fought in years. Plagued by fog, riddled with protests and jolted by a collision, the best-of-seven series was also one of the most bizarre and controversial in Cup annals. Said the Sydney Sun: "The name of the race committee boat sums up the whole shebang-Incredible...
...Donald Garvard's got a bucket in him, he can be a pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls over and around the island like a North Sea fog. McPhee settled down in a cottage sublet from a crofter named Donald Gibbie to watch and listen. The result is a small masterpiece of penetrating warmth and perception...