Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if they are becalmed, or if they are left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew the fog had come in as thick as pea soup and that...
...strict, and the newspapers have to tread carefully when they cover current events. Often the censors are fairly arbitrary, as in one famous case, when they banned Black Beauty (because of its title). While in Pretoria, I realize I have a banned novel in my suitcase, Alex LaGuma's Fog at the Season's End. For a moment, I feel as if the whole South African security force is about to knock on the door; reassured, I realize I am only liable to a $650 fine, just for reading a novel. It rather makes me long for the First Amendment...
...shipyard. "I don't care about the money at all. I have put that shipyard up my nose ten times over." In cocaine, of course--Chet is what Raymond Chandler used to call a cokey, and Panama's prose comes to you through the paranoid fog of a rolled Benjamin Franklin...
...most of all it suffers from the first person. But that first person telling also makes me think there is more to Panama than one might first notice: 92 in the Shade was a story of heat, moving at a seemingly languid pace, while Panama, underneath the cool cocaine fog, moves everywhere at once. In fact it moves no where, except back towards memory...
...ball fell short, and as it fell it broke the spell that made fog-enshrouded Harvard Stadium on Saturday afternoon a charmed circle of 23,000 onlookers and 22 men on the field.CrimsonJoel BallRALPH POLILLIO [22] streaks into the endzone for a 28-yd. touchdown run while a fan registers his jubilation in the background. Polillio's score came with eight minutes left in the game and at the time gave Harvard a 30-23 lead. Polillio had a superlative day, rushing for 67 yards in the second half and catching six passes in the game...