Word: misted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further: "The trunk and lower branches remain hidden from view: no clear, easily accessible, and authoritative description has been available to the public. This book is an attempt to provide that full picture, to reveal the tree and all its branches...
...twenty-two all your life," I remind him, and we lift and lift for a while. On those mornings, with the Maine mist not yet burned off, and the sea damp settled upon us, I can imagine that I'm just starting the voyage all over again-I can believe I'm lying on the rug old Sorrow liked to lie on, and it's Iowa Bob beside me, instructing me, instead of me instructing my father...
Does the important business of Government get done during this idyll? So far, apparently. Reagan seemed generally on top of things at last Thursday's bill-signing press conference, that, largely because of an eerie mist that swirled about the ranch, was suffused with an air of cozy cordiality...
...Harvard senior was killed Tuesday in a hiking accident near Fort William, Scotland, after she became lost in heavy mist on Ben Nevis, Great Britain's highest mountain...
...true of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, who addressed a letter to her husband, "Goody, Goody, dear Goody" and signed it "Goody" as well; or of Zelda Fitzgerald, who once focused on the sartorial-"I look down the tracks and see you coming and out of every haze and mist your darling rumpled trousers are hurrying to me"-but it is true in the general...