Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town is saying a word about it, but no one has anything else on their mind. With more snow and new waves of fog on the way, we'll be left alone in our misery, left alone to wait endlessly for more overcast mornings, forcing our eyes open to face another day. My nine-year-old son told me this week, through the crackling of Sarajevo's last remaining telephone line: "This is the third birthday I'm celebrating without you, and you promised to be here every time." My older son, already becoming a young man, says...
...press time, the forecast for today indicated that the rain would abate, though fog and cloudiness would continue...
There is, of course, a certain twisted charm to rainy days. They make the pleasures of a morning spent in bed or a steaming cup of tea (particularly in those fabulous new dining hall mugs) all the more evident. And one could view the endless drizzle and fog as the final symptom of Harvard's incurable institutional Anglophilia...
...Bird Artist -- Mint Cove, Show Cove, Richibucto, Trepassey -- provide a particular delight, as do the names of birds and men. The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee.' 'Oliver Parmelee, this is Fabian...
Promptly at 6 a.m., long before Southern California's chill and brooding morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen...