Word: misted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doomed to be called tragic. Miller's people are defeated; Williams' clan is haunted, principally by "the long delayed but always-expected something that we live for." The Glass Menagerie is thus the most Chekhovian play of the U.S.'s most Chekhovian playwright. Its mood is mist before the eyes; yet it is propelled as inexorably as the tides. At its heart is the demonic mover of the seemingly motionless-time. The texture of the play is music: nocturnal, poignant and poetic...
Vladimir Dedijer, leader of the Yugo-slav partisan movement, said last night that in a successful revolutionary movement, there mist be a balance between the "role of ideology and the role of social unrest...
...Mist. Forty-eight Thunderchiefs had been assigned to bomb the Thanhhoa bridge, a key rail-highway span across the Song Ma River, 76 miles south of Hanoi. The jets flew in groups of four; while one flight attacked, the others circled the area, their speed cut by the weight of their armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres...
...attack did come from the south-seven jets barreling out of a heavy mist bank overhanging the area. Five angled off toward the west, apparently as decoys. The other two headed straight for one of the orbiting four-plane flights...
...frantically radioed the other two: "Break off, break off!" But transmission apparently was garbled and the two remaining F-105s flew on unaware-as close to sitting ducks as Thunderchiefs can get. The MIGs made a fast firing pass, then swooshed off to the north and escaped in the mist. One Thunderchief took 20-mm. cannon hits in its hydraulic system, the other in its engine. Both limped some 20 miles until they got over the Gulf of Tonkin, where the pilots bailed out. Major Frank E. Bennett drowned, and, after a 48-hour search, Captain James A. Magnusson...