Word: misting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pitied Them." The President was in New York again two days later, this time flying through mist and fog to help open the World's Fair (see MODERN LIVING). His security men, expecting massive and bitter civil rights demonstrations, had 2,000 New York policemen and 3,000 Pinkerton guards on hand for extra protection. At the Singer Bowl stadium on the fairgrounds, Johnson sloshed through inch-deep puddles of water, made a short speech to a bedraggled crowd of 10,000, then rode to the U.S. pavilion for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. There, the trouble began...
Cruising Fleet. From Turkey came roars of indignation. Five thousand Ankara students marched through the capital shouting "Down with Makarios!" . Others gathered at the statue of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, to sing his favorite marching song: The Mist Covers the Top of the Mountain. Then they marched angrily to army headquarters to present a parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey...
...distorts history, Saxonizes the Norman Becket, and even turns Henry's formidable mate, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Pamela Brown), into a dull castle frump. As tragedy, it has more dry intelligence than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...
Bible in hand, Glueck has ranged the Holy Land off and on for 36 years. "Out on the desert," he says, "there is sometimes so much mist in the morning that you cannot travel. You have to wait for the sun to burn it off. To me, archaeology is like burning the mist off the Bible." His work, he hastens to add, is far from an effort to use archaeology to prove the existence of God. Even to try, he believes, would be to "confuse fact with faith, history with holiness, science with religion." To him, the Bible...
...Amen." Morning prayers had ended and about thirty bedraggled students trudged out of Appleton Chapel into the grey mist of Cambridge. They had arisen twenty minutes earlier than most undergraduates to attend the brief, daily service in the rear of Memorial Church. Part of a minority in the college, they share a distinction with approximately 15 percent of their fellows; they actively participate in religion at Harvard...