Word: misted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear, brisk autumn day in London, but much of the country shivered in fog and freezing mist. As darkness fell, housewives turned on their lights and electric heaters, started brewing tea and cooking dinner on electric stoves, snapped on the telly. Then suddenly, bang on 5 o'clock, it was New York all over again. The lights went...
...discovery set up a huggermugger that still swirls about Saddleworth, a mist-shrouded, hilly corner of country England near where Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lancashire meet. Acting evidently on the advice of tipsters, police began combing the moor three weeks ago. First, they found the girl's body, then, in a second grave, that of a twelve-year-old boy, missing for nearly two years from his home in near by Ashton-under-Lyne. Half a dozen neighborhood children between the ages of 12 and 16 are also listed as missing...
...come from the north, driven by the night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would stay all winter, threadbare on the gray earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it swallow up now a hanger, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them place by place, drained of color, black carrion on a white desert...
...hill overlooking Hollywood, a musty, turreted old Gothic house broods amid mist and smog. The traveler who reaches the lonely relic stands damply in a small reception hall presided over by a surly owl with satanically gleaming eyes. But there is no apparent way for the new arrival to get out of the room. Then the receptionist makes a quiet suggestion: a few words, perhaps "Open sesame!", to the owl? The visitor speaks, and, lo, the innocent-looking bookcase near the bird swings open, revealing a crowded bar. The visitor is in The Magic Castle, the U.S.'s only...
...return call. Boston Globe Photographer Edward Jenner got an urgent tip that Jackie Kennedy herself would board the Southern Breeze for dinner. Jenner and three other Boston newsmen rented a small launch and staked out the Sinatra yacht. The water was choppy, the light was fading, and the mist was rising when a launch approached the Southern Breeze. As it swung alongside and hove to, the newsmen caught a glimpse of a woman in a black sweater and light slacks who looked like Jackie going up the Southern Breeze's companionway. All four photographers began shooting. "It was like...