Word: fogs
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...rhetoric of war has always come trippingly off the tongue. But as soldiers know, the reality of war is a fog of confusion. And this war may be foggier than most. Nobody knows how to fight a global war against terrorists and those who harbor them--nobody has ever fought such a war before. As officials in Washington scrambled to assess their options last week, they faced questions unknown to their predecessors in high office: Who is our enemy? Where will the war's battlefields...
...there is something about the similarities of these three passengers that makes the portrait of them as confederates perfectly imaginable. All three were large, athletic, decisive types. Bingham, 6 ft. 5 in., played rugby when at the University of California, Berkeley, and still played for the San Francisco Fog, a gay amateur team. Glick, 6 ft. 4 in., was a national collegiate judo champion, according to the website of the software firm for which he was a sales manager. Burnett, 6 ft. 1 in., was a former high school football player and an executive of a medical-devices firm...
...matter how much we put it out there Sheila explained, Islam remains misunderstood. [People] see Islam as this black fog that no one can understand, and it seems to me that Americans are falling into the trap that the terrorists want us to fall into Sheila said. They wanted to polarize the issue into Islam vs. America or even foreigners vs. America, they want to see us fighting each other, and our country divided...
...bathing suit on underneath my clothes. This early morning in the middle of September is a balmy 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I have not jacket nor sweater. I hate myself as I shiver but the fog rising from the swimming pool creates this very cool swamp-like feel which makes me a little happier...
Imagine the densest, thickest nighttime fog possible. Replace the water droplets with extremely fine dust particles. You can only see about 20 feet in any direction. You cannot see the sun you could just ten minutes earlier. The dust is so fine that even with a shirt pulled over your mouth, you can still taste it. The air smells acrid and charred. Your eyes instantly begin to sting and burn but there is no way to keep the dust out of them...