Word: misted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
...second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
...Main Street one day last week George F. Babbitt, Booster, ran into Honest Jim Blausser, Hustler. Above them (in the words of their creator, Novelist Sinclair Lewis) "the towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist...
...first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across the car's radiator, the sight of ducks in mist or pheasant starting like an explosion of color from brown grass, the distant belling of a Bluetick hound...
Little College. Sleepy, sloppy, 38-year-old Brick Fleagle organized his 16-man club after commercial bands rejected many of his arrangements as too hot to handle. Today the band has a "book" of 50 compositions, 48 of them by Brick (Fried Piper, Frost on the Moon, Swamp Mist, etc.). It also has a waiting list of about fifty musicians...