Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fog, interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...
...things, good and bad, must eventually come to an end. That seemed to be the prevailing sentiment last week following the announcement that John B. Fog Jr. '59 would be leaving his post as Dean of the College. Since he won't oc doing so for a while, and may not depart University Hall 4 until the end of the next academic year, a full post-mortem treatment would be premature. With rumor beginning to circulate about a successor, however, a few words about Fox and the post he will leave behind seem more than appropriate...
...pervasive fog of drugs is the dark side of the Dead Heads' exceptional amiability. There is no thuggery here, as there can be in other rock crowds, no feeling of physical menace. Dead Heads cherish stories of Dead niceness. Kathleen from New Hampshire says that last fall at Augusta, Me., she was stopped at the door when someone sold her a counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just...
...Delhi, noticed that pressure was building up in a tank containing 45 tons of methyl isocyanate, a deadly chemical used to make pesticides. At 56 minutes past midnight, the substance began escaping into the air from a faulty valve. For almost an hour, the gas formed a vast, dense fog of death that drifted toward Bhopal...
...system of routing packages to one city and then sorting them out and transferring them to other flights for delivery to their final destination. Smith chose Memphis International Airport as his hub because it is centrally located in the U.S. and is socked in by fog only about ten hours a year. Beginning at around 11 p.m., some 60 planes arrive with a mountain of packages to be sorted and reloaded on the jets, which take off again between 2:50 a.m. and 4 a.m. Federal's 761,000-sq.-ft. complex contains 20 miles of conveyor belts. Computers...